Alice Hoffman Quotes

The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

How can you write if you can't cry?

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

We as human beings do this thing where we stuff down our feelings until they find a way to manifest themselves. We try to avoid them until there's no more room and they come bubbling up like a pot of boiling-hot water that overflows. And when it does, it burns.

I like crying. And now I not only wanna cry and show my crying to other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

I don't even like to cry in private.

I'll sit on the floor and cry if I'm having a meltdown. I don't care.

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don't. If you have that inside of you and can't get it out, what do you do?

I used to suppress all my feelings, and it doesn't do anybody any good.

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.