40 Quotes About Suppressing Emotions

Research has shown that suppressing your emotions and becoming shutdown can lead you down a path of negative feelings. These quotes about suppressing emotions show the importance of controlling your emotions.

“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”

“A suppressing person isn’t critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.”

“All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.”

“And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn’t the courage to express.”

“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know.”

“As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.”

“Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.”

“By the time I was ready for college, I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.”

“Chastity … has, even now, a religious importance in a woman’s life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.”

“Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child’s mind must be set free.”

“Every man — in the development of his own personality — has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is an affront to the dignity of man, a negation of man’s essential nature.”

“Expression is never helped by suppression.”

“For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.”

“How terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!”

“I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.”

“I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.”

“I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.”

“It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy.”

“It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own exploratory inclinations.”

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means.”

“It is more important to move on to positive actions without stopping to wallow in anger about injustices — including the unjust suppression of inventors.”

“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.”

“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant.”

“Most of us know that the hormone melatonin helps regulate our sleep. But it also seems to play another role – suppressing cancer growth.”

“Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.”

“Occupation maybe means when army of another country enters our country and refuses to return to their country on one pretext or other.”

“Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It’s just plain wrong.”

“Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.”

“The most effective weapon a parent has to control a child is the withdrawal of love or its threat. A young child between the ages of three and six is too dependent on parental love and approval to resist this pressure.”

“The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.”

“There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.”

“There’s fear in everything, but we can’t just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we’d become paralyzed by them.”

“There’s nothing we fear more than our own Reflection. We scream at the monsters within us, hidden deep within our hearts. We run and hide from the terrors all around us- the different mirrors that we see.”

“Trying to erase, hide, discredit, degrade, and suppress a writer’s work, merit, voice, and influence―is unconstitutional. Censorship only exists to protect corruption.”

“We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that’s the cruelest hoax of all.”

“We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person’s life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.”

“What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.”

“When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.”

“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.”

“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.”

There is a science to our emotions. Whether you suppress them or react in aggression, being able to take control of your emotions will aid in your ability to control your life.