Quotes About Repressed Emotions

#1. I've done two albums for Concord Records; one was with Al Jarreau and it did very well for us. The second album was called 'Songs And Stories,' and it had good songs and good performances, but I promised them I would do an album that was more jazz-oriented.

George Benson

#2. It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

William Glasser

#3. The limitless, lowering sky, the long stretches of motionless empty prairie, the silence, complete right down to the absence of birdsong
who knows what decides a man to leave most of his words unspoken?

Larry Watson

#4. I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

Dakota Fanning

#5. The disowned part of self is an energy - an emotion or desire or need, that has been shamed every time it emerged. These energy patterns are repressed but not destroyed. They are alive in our unconscious.

John Bradshaw

#6. Birds Fly in the Sky, because they don't know how to Cry! They know just one thing, to Sing! -RVM

R.v.m.

#7. When I heard Jonathan [Cole's agent] repeat the figure of £55k-a-week, I nearly swerved off the road. 'He is taking the p**s, Jonathan!' I yelled down the phone. I was so incensed. I was trembling with anger. I couldn't believe what I'd heard.

Ashley Cole

#8. I think I've got better at expressing my emotions. But going through the education system I went through - I don't think you can go to boarding school and come out without feeling a little repressed - yes, it does leave its mark on you.

Julian Ovenden

#9. Those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.

Janet Flanner

#11. 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

#12. My energy level rises but I get calmer, if that's possible. What a lot of people tend to do is get real tight and get all psyched up and take themselves out of their game.

Joey Harrington

#13. If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day.

David Titley

#14. Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.

Emily Blunt

#15. Where does repressed pain and rage go in a body? Does the wound of daughter turn to something else if left unattended? Does it bloom in the belly like an anti-child, like an organic mass made of emotions that didn't have anywhere to go? How do we name the pain of rage in a woman? Mother?

Lidia Yuknavitch

#16. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

Markus Zusak

#17. As a mental exercise I like to plan the murder of friends and colleges.

Sherlock

#18. Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.

Katie Hafner

#19. Luck is when determination meets opportunity

Richard Branson

#20. And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#21. Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth.

Anna Torv