pent-up emotions Quotes

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

All unlived emotions turn to inanity.

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.

My father always tells me to be forgiving, as it purges you of pent-up negativity. I harbour no bitterness and malice towards anyone.

Repressed anger becomes a temporary madness. Something happens which is beyond your control. If you could have controlled, you would have controlled it still -- but suddenly it was overflowing. Suddenly it was beyond you. You couldn't do anything, you felt helpless -- and it came out. Such a person may not be angry, but he moves and lives in anger.

Anger is active sadness; sadness is inactive anger. They are not two things. Watch your own behaviour. When do you find yourself sad? You find yourself sad only in situations where you cannot be angry. The boss in the office says something and you cannot be angry; it is uneconomical. You cannot be angry and you have to go on smiling - then you become sad. The energy has become inactive. You come home, and with your wife you find a small thing, anything irrelevant, and you become angry.

Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.

I can tell you from experience that when you get that pent-up and crazed, it can be distracting.

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

Every now and again, you just gotta hit something. Not someone - something.

I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions

If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.

His frustration running very high, he takes it out on the ones he loves because it's safe.

White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.

Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

We as human beings do this thing where we stuff down our feelings until they find a way to manifest themselves. We try to avoid them until there's no more room and they come bubbling up like a pot of boiling-hot water that overflows. And when it does, it burns.

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

I have a lot of things to say and a lot of things to let out of me.

‎She didn't understand what it was like to be filled with a love so strong that it made your chest ache—a love you could only feel and not express. Keeping love buried was a lot like keeping anger pent up, I'd learned. It just ate you up inside until you wanted to scream or kick something.

Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have found out. But I didn't have the time. Instead, I punched him.

Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding . . . . Just this once I wanted to let it rip.

Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.

She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.