Desires Quote by Allan Dare Pearce

“Nothing is more interesting than repressed emotion. The appearance of sardonic coldness and stoicism which has deceived you is but a hollow mockery; beneath…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“you cannot get all your desires assuming the hidden secret standing somewhere scrutinizing your soul.”

— Denmwen

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

— Yasmin Davidds

“Repression isn’t the answer. I know that. It’s one of the things that punish the body for what’s closed up in the mind. It’s…

— Nora Roberts

“I can’t tell you exactly what I’m looking for, but I’ll know it when it happens. I want to be breathless and weak, crumpled…

— Aimee Bender

“To understand the phenomenon of avoidance in TMS one must constantly bear in mind how radically the unconscious mind differs from its conscious counterpart.…

— John E. Sarno

“Once an emotion is toxically shame bound, one feels numb. The emotional avoidance is sealed by learning to avoid the avoidance.”

— John Bradshaw

“Desire gives pain to the heart from which springs both hope and worry. Out of suspicion I make mistakes that grow into lasting ills.…

— Laurel Corona

“Denying or repressing strong emotions doesn't eliminate them. Instead, they get displaced or stored up.”

— Susan Forward

“Repression and denial set up elaborate games to pretend that negative thoughts and feelings are not occurring.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt…

— B.G. Bowers