Emil Cioran Quotes

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.

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

There's nothing on my mind that couldn't be expressed by a long insane outburst of hysterical rage.

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am learning that if you let it go, you feel better for it. Don't keep it all bottled up inside; don't take it all on alone.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

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 have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

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.

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

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

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

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.

I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.

I started writing to reassure myself that I was still all here.

There is ways and means to vent, and sometimes they can be the wrong ways.

I'm yelling in my mind as I write a tweet.

I cry if something bad happens. I grab a drink with friends when I get stressed out. I travel. I sometimes lash out at my closest friends.

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?