Quotes About Not Being Able To Express Yourself

#1. This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves.

John Gimlette

#2. Just being able to express myself and reach so many other people by doing so is really great!

Mary Engelbreit

#3. Being an effective person-centred counsellor is not so much a matter of possessing skills and knowledge, but of having a particular set of deeply-held values and beliefs and then being able to express these qualities in interactions with other people.

John McLeod

#4. What kept me hammering away at it was the thought that to live my life as a human being, nothing is more important than being able to express myself.

Naoki Higashida

#5. I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.

Keanu Reeves

#6. Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance is like another layer to things.

Tatiana Maslany

#7. Fuck you and your memories."
"And fuck you and your defiance, Dayton.

Emma Hart

#8. She's a forever kind of girl and I'm a just for the night kind of guy.

K. Bromberg

#9. I'm from a very violent city. I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, and it's good to see me be able to express my art, have a good opportunity for my life, make history and say something, without being violent.

Jason Mitchell

#10. One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

William Hazlitt

#11. In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand.

Charles Kingsley

#12. It was odd
unsettling, actually
how love magnified everything. Small joy was turned into overwhelming happiness; worry became heart-stopping fear. It was as if love became a magnifying glass turned on the heart, taking whatever was there and making it appear many times its normal size.

Michael Thomas Ford

#13. Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

Jamaica Kincaid

#14. These hormones do not make me feel feminine: every night, I lie in bed feeling wrenched, and the bulge of my sanitary napkin in my kickers looks like a cock.

Caitlin Moran

#15. To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

Karl Kraus

#16. Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Kate Reid

#17. As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.

Henry Rollins

#18. Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair
Of not being able to express
With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,
The bleeding of my heart.

Fernando Pessoa

#19. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. I would love to perform at that level. I love the exchange with the audience. I love being able to sing and dance to express your emotions and the community and friendships that are formed when working on a theater piece.

Brianna Brown

#20. Being strong and positive is like holding your breath under water. You will never be able to do it forever. Sometimes crying out and express yourself will help you from drowning.

Vivek Thangaswamy

#21. I took my vow to poetry; this is where I'm going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This is where I'm going to put my energy.

Anne Waldman

#22. I can't tell you how may beautiful women have broken up with me because they were bored. I can't tell you because it never happened. They all adored me."
"It was your humility, wasn't it?

Derek Landy

#23. I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.

Liev Schreiber

#24. But the petty thought is like a fungus: it crawls and cringes and wants to be nowhere - until the whole body is rotten and withered with little fungi.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

Tanya Tucker

#26. To heal ourselves we also have to heal society.

Riane Eisler

#27. The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

Sharon Van Etten

#28. I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

Bob Ross

#29. It looks like Armani and Cartier went to war.

Nora Roberts

#30. Until I close my eyes to this earth for the last time, I will always be with you, happy to repay for the rest of my life the friendship and encouragement you have shown me since the day we met.

Steven F. Freeman

#31. For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

Billy Joel

#32. I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.

Colin Egglesfield

#33. Conscience is better served by a myth.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#34. Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

Avril Lavigne

#35. In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

Marlo Thomas

#36. I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.

Deborah Cox

#37. Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#38. As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.

Haruki Murakami

#39. We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

Lisa Kleypas

#40. count, and it was gnawing at him. When

Fancraft

#41. I am grateful to have spent 25 years at the 'International Herald Tribune' - a newspaper where I had unstinting support in being able to express myself freely and honestly.

Suzy Menkes

#42. I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

Van Jones

#43. We represent our constituents. And so they don't get to dictate policy.

Jeff Sessions