Repressed Quotes · Page 2

I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

— Anne Desclos

“People that don't know what they are worth will always see their capture's wings, but never their tail.”

— Shannon L. Alder

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

— Paula Polk Lillard

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

— Michael Leunig

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

— Karl Kraus

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

— Ezra Furman

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

— Oliver Tambo

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

— Dr Joyce Brothers

But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off…

— Sigmund Freud

It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner…

— Alice Miller

People often think of the unconscious mind as "the gut" or perhaps the Freudian "sink" of repressed sexual desires. It's neither one…

— Nick Morgan

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring…

— Samuel Johnson

“It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must be more relentlessly…

— Germaine Greer

Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I…

— James McGreevey

What got repressed-sometimes viciously repressed-by the strategy-concept makers, consultants, and data gatherers was a consciousness of people and their importance in the…

— Walter Kiechel

“The shadow is the place we put all the suppressed and repressed parts of our lives. + Eventually, in every life, the…

— Richard Rohr

In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say…

— Mel Brooks

Sex is probably one of the last forms of human expression to enjoy such a direct connection with nature. It might be…

— Thomas Koerfer

There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The fact that Ive been called upon to play these characters is probably not a complete coincidence. I have my own repressed…

— Michael C Hall

"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's…

— Kenny Smith

I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people…

— J. K. Rowling

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a…

— Terry Eagleton

I think the democratic movement will be repressed for now, only to erupt again somewhere down the line.And more blood will be…

— Nien Cheng

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

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

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

— Herbert Marcuse

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

— Simon Beaufoy

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

— Julie Taymor

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

— Virgil

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

— Thomas Keneally

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

— Henry Rollins

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

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

— Bryant McGill

“Expression is life; repression is suicide. When you live a repressed life, you live not at all.”

— Osho

Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.

— Yasutaka Tsutsui

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

— Karl Kraus

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

— Evelyn Waugh

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

— Sue Grafton

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

— Eric Bentley