Tao Lin Quotes

Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.

In real life, I don't cry too easily. I go numb.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.

i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either.

If we didn't desensitize ourselves in some way, every day would feel like its own tragedy.

I don't cry about anything.

I leave my emotions at home.

They say that I'm very calculated and not very sensitive - that a regular, average person, there are many things that bother them, and I don't see or feel it.

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

He knew that Dr. Argon would advise him against bottling up his emotions as it would lead to psychological scarring in the long term.

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

Oh," he said to Kiyo, voice completely devoid of emotion. "I see. It's your turn again.

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.

I don't cry in real life. I'm just pretty light and I don't get too heavy.

An emotion is only an emotion. It's just a small part of your whole being. You are much more than your emotion. An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm. If you're aware of that, you won't be afraid of your emotions.

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about -- acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.

How to survive boarding school. Do not express emotion, do not feel emotion, do not have emotion. If someone hits you, hit them back, if someone argues with you, argue back, never give in an inch, never look vulnerable and you will survive.

I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped; I was only human. But I was getting better, and so the pain was something I could avoid for days at a time now. The trade-off was the never-ending numbness. Between pain and nothing, I'd chosen nothing.

The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and supports her. If that person is missing, if the child must risk losing the mother's love of her substitute in order to feel, then she will repress emotions.