Tyler Blackburn Quotes

Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this.

It seems nobody really talks about what we do with our emotional pain. Only the ascendant perhaps, who have learned how to fully meditate or do yoga or whatever through their emotional pain.

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

People play with pain all the time.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.

If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.

I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate.

Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

I don't cry America. I do not cry. That was a once in a lifetime event. I do not cry, do you understand? I don't cry, okay?

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we've had or just dealing with life or whatever. Everyone's story is different, but we all have some kind of mechanism that we use to deal with stuff, that we create pretty young.

I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.