Repressed Quotes

“Help! Help! I'm being repressed!”

— Terry Gilliam

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

— Carl Jung

Women in Tamil Nadu are repressed. This must change.

— Kovai Sarala

I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

— Rebecca Hall

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

— Wilhelm Stekel

There must be repressed truth even in lies.

— Anonymous

“repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

— John Steinbeck

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

— Antonia Harrison

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

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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

— Bryant McGill

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

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

— Simon Beaufoy

People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct…

— Alan Watts

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that…

— Boris Johnson

I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was…

— Paul Rodgers

There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and…

— Tom Hooper

What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or…

— Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

I think I've got better at expressing my emotions. But going through the education system I went through - I don't think…

— Julian Ovenden

I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection…

— Hugh Hefner

Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt…

— George Carlin

The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it…

— Sigmund Freud

To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt…

— James E. Faust

...I have to tell you that I'm not all that comfortable with the idea of spending the rest of my life sleeping…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious…

— Leslie Fiedler

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended…

— Paulo Coelho

The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an…

— James Madison

“Treating Abuse Today (Tat), 3(4), pp. 26-33 Freyd: I see what you're saying but people in psychology don't have a uniform agreement…

— David L. Calof

When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being…

— Rajneesh

“The question I would like to pose is not, Why are we repressed? but rather, Why do we say, with so much…

— Michel Foucault

The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to…

— Benjamin Peirce

We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to…

— Paul Goodman

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

— Jean-Paul Malfatti