Inhibited Quotes

12 quotes from 11 authors

Feeling restrained can be both frustrating and revealing. This brief set of 12 thoughts, each from a unique voice, captures that sensation, offering a quick yet insightful glance at how inhibition shapes our choices and self‑expression.

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The less inhibited you are the better.

Sergei Bongart

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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

Yoko Ono

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I'm totally inhibited. When I'm overweight I will not go out.

Kirstie Alley

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I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold MacMillan

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“Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.”

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“I thought about it; my head said no and my vagina said yes and my heart said I don’t know! I’m emotionally…

Penny Reid

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I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not…

Robert Delaunay

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“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.”

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“The child is father of the man….attributed to Sigmund Freud, but believed to have been coined by a well-known poet years before…

Shirl Solomon

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Don't ever feel inhibited. It's harder to censor yourself than to just be yourself.

Sharon Van Etten

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“The word that Kagan first used to describe high-reactive people was inhibited, and that’s exactly how I still feel at some dinner…

Susan Cain

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Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied…

Rita Moreno

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