Lauren Myracle Quotes

I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.

I think what's wrong with too many people is they're too reserved. They're miserable, but they don't want to talk about it.

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

Telling my story has not been easy for me. I've had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months I avoided others, attempting to hide from interrogations about my social life.

I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.

People love telling their stories, even if they're very, very sad ones. People love to communicate and express.

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

Sometimes I worry I've said too much. But it's easier to write about things that are fresh in your mind.

It's hard to talk about childhood trauma. It's hard to talk about depression. It's hard to talk about anxiety. And we thought - I wonder if we just open up our subconscious and the things that we think about and hide from people every day and just let them come out in some of these lyrics.

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

I never felt an obligation to say every single terrible thing that happened to me.

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

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

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.