138 Quotes About Repression

I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

Finding a constructive outlet for one's wildest emotions. That's what sanity is, that's what matters.

This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll trade for power. For the opposite of weakness, which is not strength but hardness. I am a trap, but so is everything. Pick your price. I am a huckster with a hand in your pocket. I am freedom and I will eat your heart.

The way I see it the human race consists of two groups: the free spirits and the killjoys. The killjoys run things, but it's the free spirits who really count.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

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.

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb.

Love is a flame without smoke, ever fresh, creative, joyous. Such love is dangerous to society, to relationship. So, thought steps in, modifies, guides it, legalizes it, puts it out of danger; then one can live with it.