Repressed Feelings Quotes

“Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused—pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.”
― Laura Davis, Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child

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

“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it, and let off steam. Maybe all that repressed anger is the reason why there are so many serial killers in America.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Going to New York

“The situation between them was one which could have been cleared up only by a sudden explosion of feeling, and their whole training and habit of mind were against the chances of such an explosion.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“Don't you think something about her is different? More responsive, more open than she's ever been?"
"Ashna has always had too vulnerable a heart, Shobi. That's been the problem. She feels everyone's pain and internalizes it, and wants to take it away. I think the reason she's had such a hard time with you is that she didn't know what to do with yours. She finds your rage at the world too daunting. She blames herself for it.”
― Sonali Dev, Recipe for Persuasion

“Echoes of a time still
splash in my ears.
It is persistent,
gently prying into the
silver moon of my mind,
where the tide has come
to shore and wallows.

[Mind Time]”
― Susan L. Marshall, Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall

“As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“In such cases the natural needs appropriate to the child’s age cannot be integrated, so they are repressed or split off. This person will later live in the past without realizing it and will continue to react to past dangers as if they were present.”
― Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

“If the path to experiencing one's feelings is blocked either the prohibitions of "poisonous pedagogy" or by the needs of the parents, then these feelings will have to be lived out. This can occur either in a destructive form, as in Hitler's case, or in a self-destructive one, as in Christiane F.'s. Or, as in the case of most criminals who end up in prison, this living out can lead to the destruction both of the self and of others.”
― Alice Miller, For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“Telling our personal stories, naming and acknowledging our experiences, it's fundamentally how human beings makes sense of our world... When we don't or can't tell us stories, they manifest in other ways. Emotions need a voice. Without it they seek out eventually.”
― Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind, The Prison Doctor Women Inside, The Prison Doctor, Quick Reads This Is Going To Hurt 4 Books Collection Set

“Mon corps et mon esprit ont immédiatement cherché à étouffer ce sentiment naissant. Je ne me suis même pas autorisée à l'écrire. Dans mon journal. Aucune trace de cette nuit-là. Pendant longtemps j'ai manqué de mots.”
― Élodie Font, Coming In