Nancy Wilson Quotes

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

Some things I don't want to remember.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.

For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, if you walk into that room of your memories, what will happen? Will it destroy you or will it make you stronger?

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

Every single thing I do... is just me surviving.

I feel like even if I was to, say, trip and fall over on the way to the car and scratch all my arm, by the time I got in the car, it would be blacked out in my head.

I would tell high school Shane to just start writing down everything that was happening. It was so hard to think back to all those terrible moments. They all started clustering together into one big terrible moment.

I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.

No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.