Top 208 Repressed Quotes & Sayings

To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.

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

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

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

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

What got repressed-sometimes viciously repressed-by the strategy-concept makers, consultants, and data gatherers was a consciousness of people and their importance in the creation and execution of any strategy.

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

I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you have to rebel against it at some point.

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.

There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.

There must be repressed truth even in lies.

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.

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

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

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

I don't see how 'Hunchback' could ever appeal to children. It's a very adult story that deals with repressed sexuality.

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

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

I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed.

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!

Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

And whatsoever is repressed has to be repressed again because victory is never complete. There is no way to destroy sex by force, by violence. There is no way to control and discipline it. The people who have tried to control and discipline it have made the world very pornographic. Your so-called saints have a very pornographic mind. If a window can be created and a hole can be made in their heads, you will be able to see just sex, pornography. it is bound to be so. It is natural.

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

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

Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.

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

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

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

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

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

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

I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.

... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.

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

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

I think I have started to take life as it comes and quite uninhibitedly, without being repressed by the expectations of the society.

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 that combination, but I'm fascinated by it.

There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.

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.

But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.

These firecrackers outside and these lights outside cannot make you rejoice. They are only for children; for you, they are just a nuisance. But in your inner world there can be a continuity of lights, songs, joys. Always remember that society compensates you when it feels that the repressed may explode into a dangerous situation if it is not compensated. Society finds some way of allowing you to let out the repressed. But this is not true celebration, and it cannot be true.

We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e.g., out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere.

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

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

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

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.

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

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

The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.

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

In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.

Women in Tamil Nadu are repressed. This must change.

In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending it you are boiling within.

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

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.