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Quotes About Unresolved

We have far more options for black Americans to tell stories outside of slavery, but whenever it comes to slavery, it's an uncomfortable subject. Why? Because it's the most unresolved subject in American history.
~ Aldis Hodge
In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Nothing is definite, nothing is finished, nothing is determined.
~ Howard Jacobson
Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.
~ Robin Hobb
If the repression stays unresolved, the parents' childhood tragedy is unconsciously continued on in their children.
~ Alice Miller
Countertransference is described as the therapist's reaction to the patient's transference. Like transference, countertransference is a reflection of earlier events and unresolved conflicts in the therapist's own life that are now "projected" onto the therapy situation.
~ Joel Friedman
I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.
~ Daniel Craig
There'd never been any closure. There hadn't even been good-byes.
~ Andrea Kane
I wasn't enjoying the conversation that much. I didn't want to prolong it. It is the sort of man-to-woman infight that I try whenever possible to ascribe to premenstrual tension. I like the theory, but unfortunately in this case I happened to know that it didn't account for Klara, and of course it leaves unresolved at any time the question of how to account for me.
~ Frederik Pohl
Svetlana's responses to her mother would always swing, unresolved, between sentimental idealizations and bitter anger.
~ Rosemary Sullivan
No matter how many decathlons you run, how many shoes you buy or how famous you get, those unresolved, unbearable feelings exist below. Freud was on the button when he said you have to bring your darkness into the light if you want to free yourself from those deep unconscious emotions. Just like a virus has to be sweated out, your malignant thoughts and feelings have to surface.
~ Ruby Wax
My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.
~ Juliana Hatfield
A thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been resolved and the spell broken.
~ Sigmund Freud
Les émotions non exprimées ne meurent jamais. Elles sont enterrées vivantes et libérées plus tard de façon plus laides.
~ Sigmund Freud
Our past shapes our current perceptions and behaviors, and unresolved issues can stand in the way of peace of mind, joy, and happiness in the present.
~ John Yates
What you resist persists. Previous traumas that are unresolved or hidden have a significant influence in amplifying current traumatic events and hindering recovery.
~ Ellen Kirschman
Our bodies forgot, left things behind, without our hearts meaning to. Then the things that were left behind curled up somewhere deep inside us, and hunkered down. Time didn't move at the same speed for them, so they always left a lump, something unresolved.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Just as unresolved, formerly subordinated or traumatized individuals can collude with or identify with bullies, so can unresolved, formerly subordinated or traumatized groups of people identify with the supremacy of the state.
~ Sarah Schulman
It was one of those playful arguments that we would carry with us unresolved into old age.
~ Jonathan Tropper
With so much still unresolved and with time from the meeting already lost, I did not share much,
~ Ben S. Bernanke
We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.
~ Fred Upton
Nothing about 'Brotherhood' is ever wrapped up in a nice package.
~ Annabeth Gish
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
~ Stephen King
Behind the frantic expressions on the faces of humanity is unresolved regret.
~ Max Lucado