Dave Pelzer Quotes

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.

My family's messed up, for real.

If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

My parents separated when I was younger.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.

My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

I've got a lot of issues. I've got a whole lot of daddy issues.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

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.

When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

These visits make me sick, and I really think they will make me crazy.