Repressed Quotes

115 quotes by 100 authors

I've played an awful lot of repressed people. — Rebecca Hall
Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and… — James McGreevey
Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel, historically, for thousands… — Frederick Lenz
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this… — James Madison
Very devoted religious people are so extroverted, but at the same time, they're so repressed sexually and so conservative. I've never been able to understand… — Jenny Hval
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. — Cyril Connolly
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. — Karl Kraus
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
The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on… — Theodor Reik
I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties. — Jeremy Renner
I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in. — Henry Rollins
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. — Evelyn Waugh
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I… — Jane Austen
i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed. — Kathy Acker
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed… — Marquis de Sade
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. — John Steinbeck
Iâ€™m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott
As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left… — Paulo Coelho
Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand… — Elie Wiesel
Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a… — Christopher Hitchens

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