Emotional Freeze Quotes

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.

I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us.

You can find me in the frozen mood section.

Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone he loves or has been so traumatized by the possibility of beatings and punishments that he's afraid to act. If the trauma is great enough, that person's life may become frozen, emotionally frozen even though he still gets up in the morning, is busy all day, and goes to bed at night. But there's this empty space that begins to fill with rage, rage toward everyone - the perpetrator, the people in the world who haven't suffered, even toward himself. (174)

But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of very emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves. They love but know that it's a half- love or a twisted love, and so they freeze themselves.

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime.

Every emotion that I had over the last three years pretty much had to be put on hold.

The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.

An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.