Quotes About Suppression

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

The Holy Land became a police state. The British brought in more troops, until there were one hundred thousand soldiers. Some of the Black and Tan policemen, who had once suppressed the Irish, were sent to Palestine to keep order.

Suppress the thought; and the cry I am hurt! is gone. Suppress I am hurt! and you suppress the injury.

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

The tension between her lack of control and her attempt to suppress it is horrible. It's like a fart in church.

Such a cruel thing, memory. We can't remember what it is that we've forgotten. That we have been made to forget. That we've had to forget, in order to pretend to live here in a normal way.

Things, the word she used when whatever it stood for was too distasteful or filthy or horrible to pass her lips. A successful life for her was one that avoided things, excluded things. Such things do not happen to nice women.

there is something in your throat that wants to get out and you won't let it.

We can't remember what it is that we've forgotten. That we have been made to forget.

Any forced change of leadership is always followed by a move to crush the opposition. The opposition is led by the educated, so the educated are the first to be eliminated.

Languor is a more efficient method of control.

As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.

All the things we don't say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.

Never a new idea or stirring thought came to me from without; and such as rose within me were, for the most part, miserably crushed at once, or doomed to sicken or fade away, because they could not see the light.

We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.

Kitty, if only you knew how I sometimes boil under so many gibes and jeers. And I don't know how long I shall be able to stifle my rage. I shall just blow up one day. Still

I swallowed my screams whole. They went down my throat as sharp-cornered and cold as ice cubes.

control. The people's character is deliberately debased, their mind is denationalized and perpetually kept in ignorance and fed with stories of England's greatness and 'mission' in the world… As Pankaj Mishra has observed: European subordination of Asia was not merely economic and political and military. It was also intellectual and moral and spiritual: a completely different kind of conquest than had been witnessed before, which

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.