Suppressing Emotions Quotes

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.

People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.

Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.

A part of me likes to pretty up feelings that aren't so pretty.

I have learned to smile when I wasn't happy, to sing when I didn't feel like it, and to do things just to please my fans.

Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.

If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.

I waged war against my feelings.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

Fearful of sentimentality, I disown my tears and melting heart.

The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.

My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about -- acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

I stifled a sigh and ignored the Imprinted Drunk Vision Girl.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

I've still gotta come across as happy when inside I feel crap!

As soon as you try to eliminate a thought or emotion, you make it stronger.

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

In real life, I don't cry too easily. I go numb.

But it's no good letting your emotions get the better of you.

I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.