Quotes About Repressed Desires

#1. Arguably, horror may be understood as a fictional indulgence in fantasies of violence, and our fascination with it seen as a form of sublimation of repressed desires. If we accept this line of thinking, then horror has the benefit of, at least, being one of the most honest of genres.

Xavier Aldana Reyes

#2. Dreams may be thus stated: They are concealed realizations of repressed desires.

Sigmund Freud

#3. Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.

Will Durant

#4. I wish I could say that everything I do is for God's glory but I can't. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus' blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.

Tullian Tchividjian

#5. Tokyo Disneyland is an aspiring despot's wet dream.

Our Man In Abiko

#6. Your repressed feelings desperately try to climb to the surface but fail to do so, and in therapy we seek to reveal -- to uncloak, if you will -- these unconscious desires, the things that your mind tries to repress, those secrets of your soul.

Allan Dare Pearce

#7. Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.

Michael Donaghy

#8. You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

Shannon Hale

#9. Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.

Hun Sen

#10. As a beast, he had lived in a world of bliss, acting on his instincts, thinking only when he had to, never seeing himself for what he was, never worrying about his mortality, never trying to cheat death. But now his thoughts and fears ruled him. He knew evil for the first time.

A.G. Riddle