Tyler Blackburn Quotes

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

I've always had a hard time just being angry or just being really sad - the bigger emotions.

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

You have to be careful because those feelings and bitterness can take over and consume in a bad way.

But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.

Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.

In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

I had the hardest time not crying, the entire time that I was filming.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it.

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.