Yoko Ono Quotes

All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.

My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose - you drop into a different kind of serious.

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

Caitlyn isn't someone to get over. She's someone to come to terms with, the way you have to come to terms with your parents, your siblings. You can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so herself when her mother promised her something she really wanted but knew might not happen.

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

A lot can happen [because of the dysfunctional family]. People don't look at that. They think, "Oh, my kids are going to be fine. My kids are resilient." But at a certain point, the damage starts. They start to feel pain - and when they feel bad, they start to take painkillers. We want to kill the pain.

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

It's a very painful, eye-opening experience to realize, "Wait a minute, my dad actually doesn't want me to be successful because he's not happy." Whether you call it misery loves company, it's not like parents are bad people. It's a human trait. It's just a thing.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off.