Unpleasant Memories Quotes

Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth.

I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.

I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse bun, rancid teeth, wrinkly frown, pursed mouth and all, sailing around the world under cover of darkness pleased to be the bearer of ill tidings, carrying a basket of rotten eggs, and knowing- as the sun comes up- exactly where to drop them. On me, for one.

Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.

I just don't like cinemas very much. And when I do see a film it depresses me.

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life - those people are liars... Who wants the best years of their life to be in *high school*? High school is something *everybody* should be ready to lose.

When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.

The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can think of is that very day riding in the front seat with Lucy leaning against me and the smell of Juicy Fruit making me want to throw up. How can a song do that? Be like a net that catches a whole entire day, even a day whose guts you hate? You hear it and all of a sudden everything comes hanging back in front of you, all tangled up in that music.

I can't remember a dish my mother made that to me was pleasant. To this day I have a phobia of instant noodles.

I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.

I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.

I did '24;' it was terrible. I hated every moment of it.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

You know when I was a kid, I hated every day I was in school, from the kindergarten right through to my last day of high school.

The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn't like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one's life seem disorganized.

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 actually found 'We're the Millers' one of the toughest, if I'm honest, least fun experiences of my life, which is weird. It was such a huge opportunity for me to work with the people I worked with and I feel grateful to be a part of that, but it kind of messed me up.