Mary E. Pearson Quotes

All in all, the dives I made in Fiordland were some of the best I've ever made.

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.

I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life, they come back in a deformed way.

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers

One of the sports I do - my wife thinks I'm nuts - is open-water spear fishing, what we call blue-water hunting. We get in a boat, and we go offshore, normally about 30 miles. So when you jump off the boat, there are no reefs, and the bottom is no longer fifty or a hundred feet: it's thousands of feet. It's sort of like being in outer space.

I am not a fan of being under water.

Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest portions of the oceanic abyss.