Quotes About Repressing

#1. Coupling, I realized, can encourage a fairly static way of being, with each partner exaggerating or repressing certain qualities in relation to the other's.

Kate Bolick

#2. 'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.

Alan Ball

#3. One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

Stefan Molyneux

#4. Yes, well, rein it in, Prom King. British people have been successfully repressing our emotions since before your country was even a thing." We

Holly Bourne

#5. One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.

David Hare

#6. The technique of positive thinking is not a technique that transforms you. It is simply repressing the negative aspects of your personality. It is a method of choice. It cannot help awareness; it goes against awareness. Awareness is always choiceless.

Rajneesh

#7. What constitutes a state? ... Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain ... And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

#8. My need for sex seems directly proportionate to how much emotion I repress, and I'm repressing violently today.

Karen Marie Moning

#9. I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.

Erin Merryn

#10. There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

Alan Watts

#11. Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

Kathy Acker

#12. Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.

Pema Chodron

#13. I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the realm of possibility.

Autre Ne Veut

#14. Repressing is a natural instinct, but it doesn't allow for healing. Coming out of repression can be very similar to reliving the original fear. I'm sure not everyone who needs help gets help they need, and that may not necessarily mean they won't be okay.

Gwen Hayes

#15. I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty; the anarchists by repressing them; and the conspirators by rejecting their offers.

Marquis De Lafayette

#16. Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

C. G. Jung

#17. But for Jack, the sight of Schuyler Van Alen had only served to ignite a feeling he had been repressing for months.

Melissa De La Cruz

#18. She had appetites in plenty: she spent all her strength in repressing them and she underwent this denial in anger.

Simone De Beauvoir

#19. They're Democrats always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment.

Ann Coulter

#20. You may wish to be loving - you may even try with all your might - but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments ...

John Gray

#21. The idea of God is the ignorance which solves all doubt by repressing it.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#22. I have never done you injustice. Please remember me," said Dorothea, repressing a rising sob.
"Why should you say that?" said Will, with irritation. "As if I were not in danger of forgetting everything else.

George Eliot

#23. Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another.

Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal

#24. She was good at that, repressing her feelings, disguising them as something else. Sometimes she thought it was the only thing she was good at.

Nicole Ciacchella

#25. When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

Julian Baggini

#26. From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.

Lauryn Hill

#27. A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

George Jean Nathan

#28. I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.

Guy Pearce

#29. Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).

Julian Casablancas

#30. I can push everything into the dark.But it leaves me empty.And the dark always ends up finding me in my sleep

Rebecca Donovan