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Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

I bury things in the back of my mind I don't really want to deal with.

I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.

The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go down, also.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

What brings people down is the same thing over and over.

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas.