49 Quotes About Bottling Up Emotions

Bottling your feelings up is not a way to get situations resolved. Seeking resolution that makes all parties get something they want is just one way to find peace. Here are some great quotes about bottling up emotions that are perfect for getting you to move past a difficult situation.

“A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.”

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”

“Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.”

“But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”

“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”

“Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.”

“Emotions come and go and can’t be controlled so there’s no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.”

“Feelings are something you have; not something you are.”

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”

“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods.”

“I don’t care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you.”

“I know I’m not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I’ll be forever in your heart.”

“I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful.”

“I told myself that if I didn’t care, this wouldn’t have hurt so much – surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all.”

“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I’m not even brave enough for that.”

“If you don’t feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.”

“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”

“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”

“It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying.”

“It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”

“It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage.”

“Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.”

“Now there’s something I understand a little better. Hate, sadness, even joy. to be able to share it with another person.”

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”

“Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”

“Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection.”

“Resentment is often a woman’s inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility – that of making choices.”

“Respect other people’s feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.”

“Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don’t know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.”

“She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn’t feel like she had power over the most important thing of all—her own heart.”

“Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.”

“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It’s more selfless to act happy.”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

“The best way out is always through.”

“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”

“The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.”

“There’s nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.”

“These violent delights have violent ends.”

“To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.”

“To me, lyrics are harder to write when you have to invent the feelings behind them. That’s when lyrics take a lot of thought, when they aren’t genuine.”

“We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness.”

“We try so hard to hide everything we’re really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it’s somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.”

“When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don’t feel that I’m being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person.”

“When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.”

“You can’t make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.”

“You learned to run from what you feel, and that’s why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”

Human beings experience a wide range of emotional feelings throughout life. Whether you are suffering from loss or just extreme heartache, it is important to find a balance in your life.