Quotes About Suppressed

America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.

Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.

Of course, we're made up of what we've forgotten too, what we've tried to bury or suppress.

Marghe could feel the words bubble under her tongue like lava.

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

But imagine there's this thing that always sits there in the room with you. And everyone knows it's there and no one will ever say a single goddamn word about it until it becomes like an extra person living in your house that you have to make room for. And if you bring it up, they pretend they don't know what you're talking about.

You were a little wild around the eyes there," she (Denna) said gently. "I don't think I've ever seen you out of sorts before." I took another slow breath. I'm out of sorts all the time," I (Kvothe) said. "I just don't show it.

We were evolving with different needs. I needed to explore beyond myself and Robert needed to search within himself. He explored the vocabulary of his work, and as his components shifted and morphed, he was in effect creating a diary of his internal evolution, heralding the emergence of a suppressed sexual identity.

Like Raphaël de Valentin, recounted in his brief, flaming trajectory between desire and death, Chabert, the specter of the suppressed past, is one of the key mythic presences in The Human Comedy. His life story represents more than itself.

In ordinary language: as a result of the pressure of the crowd, most people lead lives that are inauthentic and irresponsible. The "they" watches over "everything exceptional that thrusts itself to the fore. Every kind of priority gets noiselessly suppressed." There is a general "levelling down," a socially enforced "averageness," in which everything authentic "gets glossed over as something that has long been well known.