Repressed Quotes

115 quotes by 100 authors

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards;… — Tom Robbins
Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept… — Kathy Reichs
He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive." She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over. — Connie Willis
...I have to tell you that I'm not all that comfortable with the idea of spending the rest of my life sleeping next to somebody… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Love is one of the most intense feelings felt by man; another is hate. Forcing yourself to feel indiscriminate love is very unnatural. If you… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words. — Joyce Brothers
His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow… — Cassandra Clare
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood… — Herbert Marcuse
He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of. — Karen Marie Moning
I know not to trust anyone," i say. "Except..." Holly studies my face. "You do fancy him, don't you? What a strange, wonderful, repressed place… — Maggie Stiefvater
When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the… — Rob Bell
Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed… — Alice Miller
You are angry, and you watch it. You are not just angry, a new element is introduced into it: you are watching it. And the… — Rajneesh
Repressed anger becomes a temporary madness. Something happens which is beyond your control. If you could have controlled, you would have controlled it still --… — Rajneesh
But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze… — Thomas Gray
People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they… — Mohamed ElBaradei
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English. — Bat for Lashes
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge… — Bat for Lashes
Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious… — Stephen LaBerge

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