Repressed Quotes · Page 2

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

— Herbert Marcuse

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

— Dr Joyce Brothers

“Come see the violence inherent in the system, HELP I'm being repressed!”

— Monty Python and the Holy Grail

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

— Damian Lewis

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

— John Steinbeck

America does not seek good for Islam, for the Muslims, and for the repressed.

— Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Behind the sternness of his voice there was a shackled anger, and beneath that shackled anger there was a buried pain.”

— Dean F. Wilson

“Miss Skeeter say maybe don't spec nothing at all, that most Southern peoples is "repressed." If they feel something, they might not…

— Kathryn Stockett

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.…

— Wendy Kopp

My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other…

— J. G. Ballard

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly…

— Isabella Beeton

I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at…

— Mary Daly

“Old repressed antipathy stirred in her. She had a rooted fear of rooms full of objects. They weighed on down and held…

— Cora Sandel

The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt…

— Paul Tillich

The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous.…

— Alice Miller

Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but…

— Emily Blunt

I was not - even the notion of "could not" seems to suggest a moment of recognition, but it was such a…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“The character had repressed all his guilt and self-doubt, the things that might make him appealing to viewers. He was simply a…

— Kathleen Gilles Seidel

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

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

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

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

— Eric Bentley

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

— Karl Kraus

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

— Yasutaka Tsutsui

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

— Osho

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

— Shannon L. Alder

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

— Anne Desclos

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

— Jeremy Renner

“She had inhibited her sympathy, one genuine sympathetic impulse would have ruined her.”

— Iris Murdoch

“He could not make them shut-up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.”

— Joseph Heller

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