Repressed Quotes

115 quotes by 100 authors

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a… — Carl Jung
Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British… — Emily Blunt
I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the… — Edward Weston
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability… — Will Durant
I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you… — Bat for Lashes
Didn't we all have dreams when we were young? But the reality of making a living took over when we had to pay our bills,… — Lucinda Bassett
The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been… — P.D. James
In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome… — Paul Tillich
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of… — Howard Zinn
Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid… — Freya Stark
And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. — Thomas Keneally
If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy. — Wally Lamb
I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than… — Mary Whitehouse
It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous. — Julie Taymor
Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents. — Yasutaka Tsutsui
I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties. — Anne Desclos
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too… — Alan Watts
There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless… — Leslie Fiedler
I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated. It's all about… — Simon Beaufoy
There must be repressed truth even in lies. — Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

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