Mary Gordon Quotes

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I'm not a guy that shows a lot of emotion while I'm playing.

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

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

I don't really cry.

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

I don't cry about anything.

I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.

He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was.

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

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.

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.

I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.

I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.

We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

Just because I don't wear my heart on my sleeve - " "You don't even wear your heart in your chest.

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.