Psychological Baggage Quotes

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.

There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling ,and sewn with rebus threads.Most of the time , the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on .

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely out of your head, and this song becomes the background noise of your entire life, snippets of lyrics and lines of music floating up and then receding, a crazy kind of tide that never stops.

You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.

I drag my myth around with me.