Guy Finley Quotes

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.

I know how hard it is to live your life with your wounds exposed to heal other people

I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

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'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

At the end of the day, we're all human beings, and people have their struggles and inner demons.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut-terin', or about them bein' off their nut.

You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces?

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

It’s been a full week since she left and all you’ve done is sulk like a dying cow. (Kish)

I couldn't tell you why she felt that way but she felt it everyday. I couldn't help her; I just watched her make the same mistakes again.

You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.