Quotes About Suppression

I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.

Suppress anger and the world will be good for you, suppress more anger and the world will be better with you. Suppress all your anger and then you will not be okay with this world.

Of course, we're made up of what we've forgotten too, what we've tried to bury or suppress. Some forgetting is necessary and the mind works to shield us from things that are too painful; even so, some aspect of trauma lives on in the body, from which it can reemerge unexpectedly

But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart.

Permission is the bloated corpse of freedom.

Scythe Curie seemed a mix of many emotions, but she folded them all away, like clothes that no longer fit, and closed the drawer.

Nelson tries not to react, but he knows that by not saying anything, his greed has expressed itself.

W)hen you cover up strange things, they never go away completely, do they?

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

I am asked to hide my viewpoint from them for fear of their fear.

John could have intended a double meaning. In the end, darkness was not able to suppress the Light even by placing the Light in a tomb. However

Elder McKinley wants his homosexuality to be turned off. To be a perfect Mormon, he has to put his feelings away.

Yetersizce bast?r?lm?? cinsellik baz? aileleri sars?yor; iyice bast?r?lm?? cinsellik ise bütün dünyay?.

She kept too much in herself. Her life was such that she had to keep too much in herself. My wisdom came too late. She is a child of her age, of depression, of war, of fear. Let her be. So, all that is in her will not bloom, but in how many does it? There is still enough left to live by. Only help her to know, help make it so there is cause for her to know that she is more than this dress on the ironing board, helpless before the iron.

To the domesticated, nomads were an unwelcome reminder of instinct suppressed, liberty compromised, and control unimplemented.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

Sometimes you took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.

Because sex has been condemned and suppressed, 'it has become an obsession, a disease, a perversion', says the Acharya, and advises us to 'accept sex with joy.

You're not like other people and it pains me to see you do something so common when I know there's much more to you than that. (Jack) How do you know? (Lorelei) I see it every time I look at you. You have a passion for life that burns so bright it almost singes me to be near it. Every time I see you suppress that fire it pains me. I don't want anything to extinguish that fire. (Jack)

I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.

to create the full-blown security apparatus to suppress what will eventually be the bulk of a nation's population and to find a continuous substantial flow of foreign capital to offset the inordinate expense—means that it is destined to fail.

If we all allow ourselves to feel the unconscious, divine, kinky pleasure we've been suppressing, then we are left with just our intelligence to guide our decisions, and that's great. Your own intelligence and consciously chosen principles are a much better ethical compass than your reactive feelings of guilt.

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.