Quotes about Repression

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When we get hurt, our bodies immediately start trying to heal that hurt. This works for emotions as well. If we were sca — Vironika Tugaleva
Know that it is your birthright to awaken. Seeking Truth is the ultimate quest of every moral citizen. Truth is felt fir — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, — Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar
The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain. — Gabor Maté
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a p — Alexander Lowen, Fear of Life
It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activit — A dangerous Method, 2011 (Movie)
It’s all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the m — Trevor D. Richardson, Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files
All this talk about morality, chastity, prudence and the like are very antiquated notions created by some very old belie — Roberto Hogue, Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
-The very absence of the freedom to criticise against your own or any other government is all the more a reason to loudl — Andrew James Pritchard, Circle In the Sand
When emotions are expressed...all systems are united and made whole. When emotions are repressed, denied, not allowed to — Candace B. Pert, Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine
Being in a state of denial is auniversally human response tosituations which threaten tooverwhelm. People who were abuse — Sarah E. Olson, Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder
It is not only negative feelings that become blocked. The repression extends to more and more of his emotional capacity. — Nathaniel Branden
Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido. — Frank Tallis, A Death in Vienna
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the represse — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I was stuck. My feelings — Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making: An Anthology
When inhibition has become the de facto setting in a person's manner, stiffness and lack of spontaneity produces an unna — Alexandra Katehakis
Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness — Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence. — B.G. Bowers, Death and Life
Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possi — Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
Repression. Her therapist, Dr. Solomon, loved the word. He'd say it slowly, letting it roll off his tongue. Sometimes he — Jo Ann Yhard, The Fossil Hunter of Sydney Mines