Shane Koyczan Quotes

I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it.

I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.

Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.

I can't admit things; that's why I can't go to funerals and stuff like that. I find it very, very difficult to deal with that kind of reality. I shut myself off totally because it affects me so badly.

Some things I don't want to remember.

What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?

I don't want to keep talking about my upbringing because people always resort to the past and what happened when I was younger.

Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.

You carry all these hurts and breakups with you forever. But there is this sort of joyful realization that the things that caused you pain were real. There is something beautiful and invigorating in holding onto that.

Why would I ever be bitter and negative and focus on the past?

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

You can see desperation in people who are too eager to laugh because they're in such a hurry not to look at what's confronting them in their lives and that's kind of sad because there's a kind of pornographic aspect to it, of making some sort of pain go away, of hovering around a pain, making yourself numb, not feel anything.

I try not to cry, in general. The experience of crying is so emotional and uncomfortable for me that I don't like to go there.

Hoarding one's hurts hurts only the hoarder.

Many of us have read about and talked about forgiveness, and we understand intellectually why it might benefit us to let go of anger toward others. But we hold on anyway.

Did someone harm you in 1962.. let go of it! Control and ride the horses of anger.

I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I've seen is so bad.

I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all.