John Grant Quotes

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

Everybody has a story... and a scream.

It's hard to talk about childhood trauma. It's hard to talk about depression. It's hard to talk about anxiety. And we thought - I wonder if we just open up our subconscious and the things that we think about and hide from people every day and just let them come out in some of these lyrics.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

It's tough being me.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

We all have our inner demons.

I have no desire to look at myself.

There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.

I was afraid to express myself for a while.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

I spent much of my life hiding.

Everyone can teach themselves to cry... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.

I think I've always had a disconnect from what I'm supposed to be like.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.