Shannon Hoon Quotes

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

Denial is a powerful force.

Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

I think when your imagination goes to work, and when you're first bullied, you feel like you're going to die. School becomes a war zone, and you can't function.

Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

Fear is a destruction of creativity.

My day is spent hiding from people.

Most people try to isolate themselves and pretend like things are all good when a lot of times, that's not how it is.

I am always running away from something.

I've been hiding from the real world all my life.

You need to face what you're running from

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.

Are you running away from something?

I'll probably go to London and hide.

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.