Word for not expressing your feelings

Contents

• Words Can’t Express How I Feel
• Words Can’t Express My Feelings for You Quotes
• Words Cannot Express How Much I Love You
• Words Can’t Express How Much I Love You
• Words Can’t Express My Feelings for You Poem
• This Kind of Love Poem

#1. An emotional response to a situation is the single greatest barrier to power, a mistake that will cost you a lot more than any temporary satisfaction you might gain by expressing your feelings. — Author: Robert Greene

#2. I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it’s a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It’s one of my great loves. — Author: Jerry Hall

#3. I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don’t know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words. — Author: Arnold Schoenberg

#4. Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires. — Author: Ann Marie Aguilar

#5. Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings — happy, sad, angry, caring. It’s also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings. — Author: Mattie Stepanek

#6. Carter, it’s not about sex. It’s about showing our love for one another. It’s about expressing our feelings for each other without words. It’s about two people who share a connection so strong, so deep that no one could take it away. — Author: Annie Brewer

#7. I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn’t mean I can’t say it to the rest of the world. I’m not a poet. Nor do I try to be one. I simply share what I do in my spare time. All poetry springs from genuine feelings. I’m only a woman expressing herself to the world. — Author: Tammy-Louise Wilkins

#8. Sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language … Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax. — Author: Rebecca West

#9. Any ‘artist’ makes a living by expressing what others can’t — because they’re unaware of their feelings, they’re too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood. — Author: Chuck Palahniuk

#10. It seemed so simple in a lot of ways, to use a basic melody to pull away from myself. To ease the pain and hide my feelings deep within a metaphor that only I understood. I couldn’t have foreseen that my quiet and dark night of the soul would start me down a path of expression through song. — Author: Mike Ericksen

#11. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. — Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

#12. You need to own your feelings. Get more comfortable expressing yourself.»
«How about I express you out the nearest window? — Author: Greg Cox

#13. Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don’t just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere. — Author: Tao Okamoto

#14. Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others. — Author: Alice Duer Miller

#15. We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, expressing yourself without any reservations. This helps the listener to understand more easily. — Author: Shunryu Suzuki

#16. I have learned to write about things that are personal without objectifying anybody or anything, and that’s been an important lesson for me. It’s useful not to dump on people while simultaneously expressing a truth or a feeling if it’s necessary, without diluting the intensity of the lyric. — Author: Martha Wainwright

#17. Expressing our feelings out loud, especially to someone else, can bring a sense of relief. There is power in proclamation. — Author: Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

#18. Drawing is … not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods. — Author: Henri Matisse

#19. It’s easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say. — Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

#20. Books can inspire you to love yourself more, but by listening to, writing out, or verbally expressing your feelings you are actually doing it. — Author: John N. Gray

#21. I am a man. I claim the right of expressing my feelings. — Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

#22. I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it’s about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader. — Author: Taylor Mali

#23. But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost. — Author: Alicia Machado

#24. If you think back to the moments when you’ve gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use. — Author: Joel Kinnaman

#25. When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren’t expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn’t seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset. — Author: Wallace Shawn

#26. When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed, and can be talked about. That’s an important thing for our children to learn. — Author: Fred Rogers

#27. I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting. — Author: Harry Callahan

#28. I believe in romance … in playfulness … in passion … in expressing feelings … in friendship … in all the ways love heals, nourishes, and transforms «you» and «me» into an «us». — Author: Steve Maraboli

#29. Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings. — Author: Lester Levenson

#30. Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it’s not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference — Author: Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#31. Expressing intense feelings usually portends better results than emotional detachment does. — Author: Mark Murphy

#32. Music. It’s not about those things. It’s about a feeling. It’s about expressing yourself. It’s about letting go. — Author: Antony John

#33. But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing. — Author: Meryl Streep

#34. It’s so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There’s definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness. — Author: Lindy Booth

#35. When you are grounded in the present — feeling your feelings, listening to your body, tasting your food, and expressing your ideas — you do not build up toxicity. You digest your experience as you go. — Author: Debbie Ford

#36. Aren’t we all animals at the end of the day? I like to show that side of me, but in a respectful way. I’m just expressing myself. It’s all about feeling good and confident about yourself, and not letting anyone else tell you what you can or can’t do. — Author: Fefe Dobson

#37. The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. — Author: Jackson Pollock

#38. Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly — hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear. — Author: Joan Rivers

Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one feeling at a time. Classical music is by its very nature involved with different kinds of music, constantly transforming one another, which is more akin to the way our experience of life really is. — Michael Tilson Thomas

Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds talking painful, and the listener is equally pained. Persons who are inhibited in expressing feeling are not good conversationalists. Nothing is more boring than to listen to a person talk in a monotone without feeling. We enjoy a conversation when there is a communication of feeling. We have pleasure in expressing our feelings, and we respond pleasurably to another person’s expression of feeling. The voice, like the body, is a medium through which feeling flows, and when this flow occurs in an easy and rhythmic manner, it is a pleasure both to the speaker and listener. — Alexander Lowen

I have learned to write about things that are personal without objectifying anybody or anything, and that’s been an important lesson for me. It’s useful not to dump on people while simultaneously expressing a truth or a feeling if it’s necessary, without diluting the intensity of the lyric. — Martha Wainwright

I believe in romance … in playfulness … in passion … in expressing feelings … in friendship … in all the ways love heals, nourishes, and transforms «you» and «me» into an «us». — Steve Maraboli

We wait too long to tell the people we love that they are the very reason that we exist. We assume that our wife, child, other family members, and friends understand our love and affection. We assume that people we care about understand our enigmatic idiosyncrasies and willingly accept the shrouded reasons behind our demonstrable oddities. We assume that other people sense that we struggle valiantly in our blackened landscape. We presume that other people comprehend our struggle to glean meaning amongst the ashes spewed from the absurd circumstances that we operate. Sometimes we need to stop and tell the tenderhearted persons whom we care about that we love them and explain that our awkward strangeness is not a rejection of them. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I don’t get it — how you can feel like there are no consequences for living with your feelings on your sleeve. — Julie Murphy

Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it’s not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

As an actress, I’m drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I’m fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips. — Diane Keaton

Carter, it’s not about sex. It’s about showing our love for one another. It’s about expressing our feelings for each other without words. It’s about two people who share a connection so strong, so deep that no one could take it away. — Annie Brewer

But it wasn’t more honestly that would have saved me, I thought; it was more dishonesty. In my experience, honesty and expressing your feelings could lead to only one thing. Disaster. — Margaret Atwood

Aren’t we all animals at the end of the day? I like to show that side of me, but in a respectful way. I’m just expressing myself. It’s all about feeling good and confident about yourself, and not letting anyone else tell you what you can or can’t do. — Fefe Dobson

What said those two souls communicating through the language of the eyes, more perfect than that of the lips, the language given to the soul in order that sound may not mar the ecstasy of feeling? In such moments, when the thoughts of two happy beings penetrate into each other’s souls through the eyes, the spoken word is halting, rude, and weak — it is as the harsh, slow roar of the thunder compared with the rapidity of the dazzling lightning flash, expressing feelings already recognized, ideas already understood, and if words are made use of it is only because the heart’s desire, dominating all the being and flooding it with happiness, wills that the whole human organism with all its physical and psychical powers give expression to the song of joy that rolls through the soul. To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer. — Jose Rizal

I am a man. I claim the right of expressing my feelings. — Elizabeth Gaskell

It’s easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say. — Laurie Halse Anderson

He thinks I’m having trouble expressing my feelings, which is why he suggested I write in a journal — to get it out, he said, like in the old days when physicians used to bleed their patients in order to drain the mysterious poisons. Which almost always ended up killing them in spite of the doctors’ good intentions, I might point out. — Cynthia Hand

Expressing our feelings out loud, especially to someone else, can bring a sense of relief. There is power in proclamation. — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

If we think about emotion this way-as outside-in, not inside-out-it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressing emotions and feelings,which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us. Psychologists call these people «senders.» Senders have special personalities. They are also physiologically different. Scientists who have studied faces, for example, report that there are huge differences among people in the location of facial muscles, in their form, and also-surprisingly-even in their prevalence. «It is a situation not unlike in medicine,» says Cacioppo. «There are carriers, people who are very expressive, and there are people who are especially susceptible. It’s not that emotional contagion is a disease. But the mechanism is the same. — Malcolm Gladwell

Any ‘artist’ makes a living by expressing what others can’t — because they’re unaware of their feelings, they’re too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood. — Chuck Palahniuk

To take the simplest example: one man laughs, and another, who hears, becomes merry; or a man weeps, and another, who hears, feels sorrow. A man is excited or irritated, and another man, seeing him, comes to a similar state of mind. By his movements, or by the sounds of his voice, a man expresses courage and determination, or sadness and calmness, and this state of mind passes on to others. A man suffers, expressing his sufferings by groans and spasms, and this suffering transmits itself to other people; a man expresses his feeling of admiration, devotion, fear, respect, or love to certain objects, persons, or phenomena, and others are infected by the same feelings of admiration, devotion, fear, respect, or love to the same objects, persons, and phenomena. — Leo Tolstoy

When you are grounded in the present — feeling your feelings, listening to your body, tasting your food, and expressing your ideas — you do not build up toxicity. You digest your experience as you go. — Debbie Ford

Sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language … Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax. — Rebecca West

Audrey’s head spun. «You puked in the alley? Wow. You must really like him.»
«Oh, God. Don’t say that.» Victoria bent her head over her knees and took slow, deep breaths.
«The vomiting seems to be her way of expressing her feelings toward Ford,» Rachel told Audrey.
«Aw. And they say romance is dead.» — Julie James

To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John’s Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33) … The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action. — Brennan Manning

Mere numbers cannot bring out … the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work … What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! … The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject’s] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description! — Alfred Binet

Music is either sacred or profane. What is sacred accords completely with its nobility, and this is where music most immediately influences life; such influence remains unchanged at all times and in every epoch. Profane music should be altogether cheerful.
Music of a kind that mixes the sacred with the profane is godless and shoddy music wich goes in for expressing feeble, wretched, deplorable feelings, and is just insipid. For it is not serious enough to be sacred and it lacks the chief quality of the opposite kind: cheerfulness. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing. — Meryl Streep

Expressing my feelings and then the opportunity to share it with others is just such a gift. — Mattie Stepanek

For decades, many therapists have been attempting to help abusive men change by guiding them in identifying and expressing feelings. Alas, this well-meaning but misguided approach actually feeds the abuser’s selfish focus on himself, which is an important force driving his abusiveness. — Lundy Bancroft

Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language. — Debasish Mridha

I did not like being dependent on others, found it hard to trust them, and was very inept at expressing my feelings. — Marie Kondo

Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don’t just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere. — Tao Okamoto

Nobody really enjoys having to pacify their feelings. It’s too much like failure; it reminds you of weakness. but feelings don’t want to be pacified, either. They want to be fulfilled. You fulfill your positive feelings (love, hope, optimism, appreciation, approval) by connecting with other people, expressing your best self. You fulfill your negative feelings by releasing them. Your whole system recognizes negative feelings as toxic. It’s futile to bottle them up, divert them, ignore them, or try to rise above them. Either negativity is leaving or it’s hanging on — it has no other alternative.
As you fulfill emotions, your brain will change and form new patterns, which is the whole goal. — Deepak Chopra

When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else — the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said. — Pina Bausch

An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he’s expressing the same emotion in exactly the same way. He has developed a technique to convey those feelings so that he can get the ideas across. Or a musician may not want to play that damn music at all, but he has a booking and has to do it. — Richard Estes

Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation … In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance. — Anais Nin

I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing ‘Measure for Measure.’ I immediately felt it was a great way of expressing oneself at a moment when I didn’t think I could express myself, really. I suddenly had access to this range of emotions and thoughts and feelings that were there in me. I was surprised by that. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don’t know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words. — Arnold Schoenberg

It seemed so simple in a lot of ways, to use a basic melody to pull away from myself. To ease the pain and hide my feelings deep within a metaphor that only I understood. I couldn’t have foreseen that my quiet and dark night of the soul would start me down a path of expression through song. — Mike Ericksen

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