Paulo Coelho Quotes

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.

I know I probably have a lot of rage in me that I don't show. But I'm not about to wallow in it or reveal it.

It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.

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.

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 couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.

I have a tendency to really stuff things — like, I don't really express certain feelings.

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

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

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.

I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.

Most guys, tough or not, hide emotions. I know a lot of tough guys; they're just as weak as the next man, but they don't show it.

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

Often the people with the biggest smiles can be struggling the most.

She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.

We can learn to suppress our feelings for other reasons.