Repressed Quotes

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All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

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 better.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

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 full image of god.

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 voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

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 at the foot of the scaffold.

I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

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 humanitarian ordering of life.

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 falling against a silver gray sky.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.

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 the genial current of the soul.

I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.

Alcohol has never caused anyone to do something they didn't want to do. It only enables them to do what they've always wanted but have instead repressed.

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.

i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.

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 this is.

The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.

America does not seek good for Islam, for the Muslims, and for the repressed.

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 each passing day, your reasons for wanting a wife become clearer.

I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and incitement of specular curiosity and fascination.

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of.

All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdown, if kept unchecked.

From time to time, one must release the grime built up inside them to to free their emotions like the ocean.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.