Suppressed Emotions Quotes

Beware the fury of the patient man.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

When I'm funny is when I'm angriest.

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

A lot of times, men like to keep stuff in and that's the worst thing that you can do.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it . . . for my loved ones.

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

I think cancer - I'm not an expert or a doctor - but I think cancer is the result of undigested dreams and forcing yourself to do something that is not distinctively you.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.

I had always held everything in before.

We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity.

I was suppressed for many years. From the outside, you'd think I had a very normal life.

It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very ill - he was an alcoholic - so there were a lot of things that built up for me. And because I was going to a Catholic school in a small German town, a lot of it was suppressed. I was angry and didn't know how to get it out.

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.

A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.