Repressed Quotes · Page 2

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very…

— Bat for Lashes

Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

— Eric Bentley

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a…

— Sue Grafton

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

— Evelyn Waugh

Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.

— Simon Beaufoy

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

— Herbert Marcuse

We all have hidden or repressed desires, and let he who has never had at least one cast the first stone.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words

— Dr Joyce Brothers

Alcohol has never caused anyone to do something they didn't want to do. It only enables them to do what they've always…

— Neil Strauss

“...and said with the softness of repressed violence, 'I am not one to stick his neck out; it is a bit of…

— Rebecca Ashe

“To be repressed is to be stifled and smothered; to be irrepressible, you must love yourself enough to allow the real you…

— Yasmin Davidds

I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and…

— Helena Bonham Carter

How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and…

— Sonny Rollins

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta…

— Juvenal

Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a…

— Anna Torv

The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he…

— Theodor Reik

On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were…

— C. S. Lewis

The international community...cannot simply call on Palestinians to abandon violence in the face of Israeli occupation and remain silent when the nonviolent…

— Yousef Munayyer

Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which,…

— Herbert Spencer

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really…

— Jay Roach

And whatsoever is repressed has to be repressed again because victory is never complete. There is no way to destroy sex by…

— Rajneesh

If I look at the really important questions in [Middle East] region, I see Iran, where there is a strong desire for…

— Donald Rumsfeld

As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that…

— Abraham Maslow

I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated.…

— Simon Beaufoy

“Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.”

— Bryant McGill

To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Only the emotionally repressed never feel pain but then they also don't feel love or joy.

— Antonia Harrison

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

— Henry Rollins

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

— Thomas Keneally

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

— Virgil

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

— Julie Taymor

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

— Karl Kraus

The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.

— Michael Leunig

“He is exiled in a school where to often his capacity for constructive growth and self realization is repressed.”

— Paula Polk Lillard

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

— Oliver Tambo

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

— Ezra Furman

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

— Alan Ball

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

— Karl Abraham

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

— Anthony Hopkins

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

— Kate Millett