Repressed Quotes - Page 7

• You are angry, and you watch it. You are not just angry, a new element is introduced into it: you are watching it. And the miracle is that if you can watch anger, the anger disappears without being repressed.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Miracle, Watches

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• In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Funny Relationship

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.123

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• i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

  Kathy Acker

  Limitless, Natural, Disaster

  Kathy Acker (1996). “Pussy, king of the pirates”

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• The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Law, Feet

  "Philosophy in the Bedroom". Book by Marquis de Sade. Chapter: "Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans", 1795.

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• And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

  John Steinbeck

  Strength, Wrath, Sound

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.191, Hamilton Books

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• My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

  Hugh Hefner

  Home, Kissing, People

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• As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.

  Abraham Maslow

  Running, Motivation, Self

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• All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go. I say remember, because you knew it already. And you know it still, but that knowledge is being repressed by the society.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Art, Meditation

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• I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest; and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security, its distrust of the unknown and its elevation of abstract collective values has repressed the heroic impulse to a degree that may produce the most dangerous consequences.

  Laurens van der Post

  Hero, Men, Degrees

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• The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil of material forms, and disclose the thoughts which lie beneath them? When our researches are successful, and when a generous and heaven-eyed inspiration has elevated us above humanity, and raised us triumphantly into the very presence, as it were, of the divine intellect, how instantly and entirely are human pride and vanity repressed, and, by a single glance at the glories of the infinite mind, are we humbled to the dust.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Lying, Inspiration, Science

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• But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

  Thomas Gray

  Time, Eye, Soul

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.49-52.

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• The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.

  Max Landis

  Dark, Childhood, Bipolar

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• Repressed anger becomes a temporary madness. Something happens which is beyond your control. If you could have controlled, you would have controlled it still -- but suddenly it was overflowing. Suddenly it was beyond you. You couldn't do anything, you felt helpless -- and it came out. Such a person may not be angry, but he moves and lives in anger.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Anger, May

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• When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.

  Rob Bell

  Cutting, Voice, Sacred Feminine

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• Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom Of Speech, Abuse, Commit

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• I do like the idea of the novel of repressed college students being a contemporary novel of courtship! I guess what I would say to that is, we tend to think of historical periods and historical mores as ending a lot more concretely than they do. Like, in an Austen novel, there are lots of reasons - cultural, moral, religious - why the characters don't have sex during courtship. Maybe, even though those reasons have kind of expired, historically, they're still around in some sense.

  Elif Batuman

  Religious, Sex, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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