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Quotes About Suppressed

Told me that when you bury emotions like that, you're only pissing them off ... making them stronger, because you're burying them alive. They don't like that, and one day they'll make sure that you don't like it either.
~ Rob Thurman
If fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Tita was literally "like water for chocolate"-she was on the verge of boiling over.
~ Laura Esquivel
S for silent, for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.
~ Timothy Leary
Please don't smile like that. Your heart is full of feelings that you've kept to yourself. Don't laugh as if you don't know anything.
~ Arina Tanemura
The obligation falls upon us to foster in ourselves the sensibilities that modernity has suppressed or even denigrated. ... Without awe, our lives are impoverished, our society decays.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
slavery's demise had been hastened by large slave revolts in the British West Indies, brutally and with increasing difficulty suppressed by British troops.
~ Adam Hochschild
I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
~ Dominic Cooper
she suppressed a revolt led by the board's executive secretary that had caused open warfare between factions of elegantly coiffed and dressed women.
~ Erik Larson
Gompers was calling for fundamental change in the relationship between workers and their overseers. This was dangerous talk, to be suppressed at all costs.
~ Erik Larson
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break. —Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
~ Esther Perel
unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Las emociones no expresadas nunca mueren. Son enterradas vivas y salen más tarde de peores formas».
~ Robin S. Sharma
But too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart, as my favourite poet has written.' 'Who's that?' 'W. B. Yeats. And I think that sometimes normal behaviour has to be suppressed, in order to carry on.' 'I'm not sure,' said Maneck. 'Wouldn't it be better to respond honestly instead of hiding it? Maybe if everyone in the country was angry or upset, it might change things, force the politicians to behave properly.
~ Rohinton Mistry
Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it--once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the
~ Lewis Carroll
The proper formation and consecration of the Eucharist requires careful attention. The Objects of the Working must be chosen systematically. My own Record has all the faults of pioneer work: it contains much to avoid. There must be proper tabulation of the Experiments, and strictly scientific observation. Sentimentality, sexual or spiritual, must be sternly suppressed. Compliance with these conventions should assure a success far greater than I have myself attained.
~ Aleister Crowley
Secessionists were attempting to build a modern, proslavery, antidemocratic state. In order to wage a war, the leaders of this fundamentally antidemocratic state needed popular support. Such support was difficult to gain and impossible to maintain. The Confederacy therefore suppressed dissent.
~ Jill Lepore
The fatal problem for the media, the official media, is that it is now in direct competition with social media, the unofficial media. All of the opinions that had been so carefully suppressed by the mainstream have suddenly got an airing and have proved widely popular because the people have been starved of them so long. They always wanted this kind of material, but the media deliberately prevented them from getting it. The West is now having its own Samizdat Moment, and loving it.
~ Jim Lee
In the former Soviet Union in the years following 1989, nationalism was still popularly believed to be progressive; nationalist leaders were still believed, at least in the beginning, to speak for the many people whose voices had been suppressed in the past.
~ Anne Applebaum
Once I would not have believed this, but now I understand too well that there is in all of us, even the most pacific and composed, an enormous capacity for rage, asleep maybe but present nonetheless, waiting for the single thing that will uncage it. A
~ Anne D. LeClaire
Un esclavo es aquel que no puede expresar su pensamiento.
~ Euripides
And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
~ Fiona Shaw
The Church condemned and suppressed his work, and probably destroyed a lot of it. In the 1880s, two Latin manuscripts of Eckhart's were found. Since 1980 the Dominican Order has sought to reveal that Eckhart was an exemplary Christian mystic and priest.
~ Robert Wolfe