Emotional Constraint Quotes

I'm unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married - maybe in reaction - got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket.

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on

In 'The Giver,' I play a character called Jonas who is a member of this community called Changeless. In this community, everyone is kept at bay emotionally and physically. They receive an injection every morning to control them from feeling things like love and pain and all natural emotions.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.

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

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

Negative thoughts are not protecting you. They are making you smaller.

I felt so contained at home. I always really felt like I couldn't be myself at home, so I was always quiet. I remember I used to sit in my room and listen to Bone Thugs and close the door.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.

We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas.

Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.

The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.

In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.

It's just so frustrating when you're in a supporting role because you only get to express a part of yourself.

Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.

It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.