Shane Dawson Quotes

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.

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children.

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.

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

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.

Now I look back and think if I'd spent more time enjoying myself instead of crying into my pillow over men, my 20s would have been fabulous!

It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.'

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself.

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

I go through a lot of painful things. There are sessions when I will be on my back afterwards, crawling.

Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind.

I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.

I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for the life of me, remember a lot of my road stories and good times. When times are bad enough, that's all you can ever think about.

I love my journal as much as I love my phone. I find it to be a big part of my self-care to reflect on my day and write words that inspire me or paste business cards and pictures.