Feeling Suppression Quotes

Work is a great blotter up. It stops you thinking, which is useful. No, it stops you feeling.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing its motility so that feeling is diminished. The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid. Suppression entails the development of chronic muscular tension in those areas of the body where the feeling would be experienced. In the case of sexual feeling, this tension is found in and about the abdomen and pelvis

Your feelings are none of your business.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid.

I'm very sensitive - I'll cry during every movie or commercial - but when it comes to my own feelings, I don't really think about them that much unless I'm making music. Otherwise, I'm either checked out or laughing because that's how I do regular stuff. I have a hard time talking about my feelings.

To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer.

Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.

Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.