Inhibited Expression Quotes

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

I like the idea of contained emotion because I grew up most of my life feeling that way. As an adolescent, people would always say I was not expressive, and they always made the mistake of thinking that I didn't feel anything because I didn't react to things.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity.

Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words?" -346

The whole area of creativity is constipated and frightened.

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

when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.