Walter Savage Landor Quotes

The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.

I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins.

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

I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.

People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?

Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.

Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

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

It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.

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

Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.

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.

I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.

I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

You hear people say, 'Well, I was going to say this, but I knew I couldn't get through it without crying.' Well, like, think of all the great things we didn't hear because of that.

I was told not to cry as a kid.

I used to bottle things up.

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.