Quotes About Suppression

Some people behave as though they are having an allergic reaction to feelings.

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?

Sabes lo difícil que es no decir nada? ¿A pesar de que hasta el último átomo de tu cuerpo se esfuerza en lo contrario?

The trouble is, we are often afraid of our own emotions, or we are afraid to share or receive the emotions of others. We get embarrassed and perhaps offended by them. We try to suppress them or deny them, which is really rather silly when you think that God created our emotions just as much as every other dimension of our embodied human life.

Icy people often freeze themselves in order to hold in check a volcanic stew of disturbing and conflictual feelings. Emotional hibernation, if you will. Crack the ice and the stuff inside comes pouring out with all the discipline of molten lava.

The closet encouraged reading.

The degree of unity aspired to in the total society is incompatible with human freedom and the right to disagree. Politics should be the mediation, not the suppression, of conflict.

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

According to studies, negating your thoughts and emotions may result in a paradoxical consequence in which they can impact you even more. You lose control over your inner experiences when you deny and suppress them. You could interpret that as a warning not to worry about a pink elephant. Your perception is still based on the denied material.

It is also evident that many Germans did not want to know about what was being done to the Jews. Either it did not interest them or they wanted to suppress it from their consciousness. All too often, they were too involved in their own lives and worries, and they became blind to the sufferings of the Jews and deceived themselves about their fate.

It's a curse to have a mind if it is illegal to use it. It's a curse to have intelligence if you are forced to cloak it in a lifetime of wilful stupidity.

Families necessitate energetic concealment of the obvious, to be plain about it. To be in a family is to work strenuously to suppress the truth, for reasons I cannot determine, and the shadow, when it came, caused competing strategies in the family I occupied.

No one in the house had seen books for generations. We didn't even know what they were. We'd only heard that they were poisonous and that they ruined the mind, and that no one was to have anything to do with them.".

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.

I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of

All the stuff I don't like about myself has been pushed to the back of my brain

I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

and won out of her a stiff unused smile.

How hard do we work to blind ourselves to things that we don't want to see?

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.