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Quotes About Suppressed

I feel as if I were about to explode. I know crying would help, but I can't cry. I'm restless.
~ Anne Frank
I'm seething with rage, yet I can't show it. I'd like to scream, stamp my foot, give Mother a good shaking, cry and I don't know what else because of the nasty words, mocking looks and accusations that she hurls at me day after day, piercing me like arrows from a tightly strung bow, which are nearly impossible to pull from my body. I'd
~ Anne Frank
It was assumed that the admission of new states to the Union could be orderly and need not disturb issues that the Constitution had either suppressed or postponed, such as slavery, women's suffrage, and the status of native Americans.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.
~ Khaled Hosseini
They had never kissed, nor even touched, only passed by each other closely as they went into his office, a tiny cubicle off the library - they avoided the teachers' room. But after he said that that day, she lived with a kind of terror, and a longing that felt at times unendurable. But people endure things.
~ Elizabeth Strout
And there seemed nothing to be done about it. And nothing was done about it. Because I could not speak of it and William became less happy and he closed down in small ways, I could see that happen. And we lived our lives on top of this.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.
~ Augusten Burroughs
How many generations? Days that were pages of hysteria. Their survival depended on suppressed hysteria.
~ Gayl Jones
It's not the one-half that's never been told; it's the three-quarters.
~ Peter Tosh
Tears are like the lava of a volcano; you can see the escape but never the core.
~ Sanita Belgrave
Nothing, however, stopped the conquerors' resolution to crush every aspect of Basque nationalism. The Basque flag, the ikurriña, was outlawed and use of the Basque language suppressed. Threatening notices were displayed: 'If you are Spanish, speak Spanish.' Regionalist feelings in any form were portrayed as the cancer of the Spanish body politic.
~ Antony Beevor
There were no mysterious murders to baffle the police and to arouse in a million breasts the moral indignation that was often suppressed envy.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
İfade edilmemiÅŸ duygular asla ölmez, sadece diri diri gömülür ve sonradan daha korkunç ÅŸekillerde tezahür ederler.
~ Sigmund Freud
But since Freud still conceives the mind as a closed system, desires are not expelled but only hidden away.
~ Sigmund Freud
Emoções não expressadas jamais morrem. Elas são enterradas vivas e voltarão mais tarde, mais feias.
~ Sigmund Freud
The day thought, which was no wish in itself but rather a worry, had in some way to find a connection with the infantile now unconscious and suppressed wish, which then allowed it, though already properly prepared, to originate for consciousness.
~ Sigmund Freud
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways.
~ Sigmund Freud
Les émotions non exprimées ne meurent jamais. Elles sont enterrées vivantes et libérées plus tard de façon plus laides.
~ Sigmund Freud
She's been used to hiding her feelings for so long, no wonder her manner can be a little awkward.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Well, I don't howl. Not quite. But I feel like howling.
~ Sophie Kinsella
You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished...
~ Tennessee Williams
People with a compressed structure, out of necessity, have crushed, numbed, and muffled their feelings. Not only do they need space, but it sometimes takes them long periods of time to be able to feel and then articulate their feelings. As a result, they often have markedly delayed reactions to events and people.
~ Elliot Greene
The worst families are those in which the members never really speak their minds to one another; they maintain an atmosphere of unreality, and every one always lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill-feeling. It is the same with nations.
~ bagehot walter xvii
Fine dressing could not be suppressed despite ever-renewed sumptuary laws which tried especially and repeatedly to outlaw the pointed shoes.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman