Repressed Quotes

115 quotes by 100 authors

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
I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my… — Helena Bonham Carter
You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films… — Helena Bonham Carter
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing… — Paulo Coelho
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil… — Benjamin Peirce
My research has shown me that when emotions are expressed-which is to say that the biochemicals that are the substrate of emotion are flowing freely-all… — Candace Pert
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment,… — Stephen Covey
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and… — Laurens van der Post
In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished… — James E. Faust
Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or… — Henri Nouwen
Everybody knows from his own experience that after laughter, good laughter, a belly laugh, you almost feel that you have taken an ice-cold shower; a… — Rajneesh
All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go. I say remember, because you knew it already.… — Rajneesh
As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person… — Abraham Maslow
I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion. — Wilhelm Stekel
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a… — Samuel Johnson
Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more.… — Ludwig Binswanger
In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under… — Carl Jung
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which,… — Thomas Malthus
I think the democratic movement will be repressed for now, only to erupt again somewhere down the line.And more blood will be shed, just like… — Nien Cheng

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