Suppressed Emotion Quotes

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

Beware the anger of a patient man.

A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one’s own mind.

But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

He laughed. I suddenly wanted to laugh, to laugh with him, to sit here, or maybe outside in the rain, and just laugh with him. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t even smile.

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.

It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.

You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long.

When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.

The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, 'Lost in Translation.'

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.