Quotes About Repressed Feelings

#1. 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

#2. Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

Sue Grafton

#3. It is not the pain from the present that is killing you, but all your repressed feelings from the past that adds weight to it.

Linda Alfiori

#4. All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

Peter Kreeft

#5. I find it increasingly difficult to speak of my feelings at will.

Alexandra Kleeman

#6. Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Al Pacino

#7. It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.

Alice Miller

#8. Repressed and suppressed feelings require counter-energy to keep them submerged. It takes energy to hold down our feelings. As these feelings are relinquished, the energy that had been holding down the negativity is now freed for constructive uses.

David R. Hawkins

#9. In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

Jane Austen

#10. Besides, it's my God-given right as an American to speak my mind and fill others' ears with my thoughts, my opinions, my innermost feelings, and my repressed childhood memories.

Tim Anderson

#11. I have always been the reader, never the writer. Now that I have tasted writing I don't think I can get enough of it. This thirst for writing my never be quenched.

Shaunna Peterson

#12. So I wonder this, as life billows smoke inside my head This little game where nothing is sure Why would you play by the rules? Who did? You did. You ...

Dave Matthews

#13. What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

#14. The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#15. In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." Elizabeth's astonishment was beyond expression.

Jane Austen

#16. As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#17. Often illness is an expression of feelings repressed.

Sue Patton Thoele