Robert Pinsky Quotes

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

I didn't have a horrible life as a teenager but I was certainly depressed and had some pain in my life at that time. I've spent a lot of time thinking back on that time in my life. I think I am just fascinated by it.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.

My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.

What's wrong with being angry? There's a lot of stuff to be angry about. If you're angry, anger covers pain. I don't know if you can truly deal with pain.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

I have a lot of anger built up in me from my childhood. My wife and kids are the only ones who give me peace in this world.

I think that definitely any trauma - whether it's childhood or later in life - affects you negatively, especially when it's suppressed, but there's so much of us which is already in place.

I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt myself.