Quotes / Emotion Suppression

Anime & Manga

"Sorry to say, but it was you who took all emotion from your sons, Father. Even their own deaths won't get a reaction from them. They're my own brothers, and they don't even feel human to me."

— Vinsmoke Reiju regarding her younger brothers Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji, One Piece

Films — Live-Action

"You are just gonna have to learn to sit on your regret and pain until it turns into a dull, persistent ache. The way I do it. The way a man does it."

—Roy Pulsipher, R.I.P.D.

Literature

I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.

— Frank Herbert, Dune

Live-Action TV

Cybercontroller: You are proud of your emotions?
The Doctor: Oh yes!
Cybercontroller: Then tell me, Doctor. Have you known grief? And rage? And pain?
The Doctor: Yes. Yes, I have.
Cybercontroller: And they hurt?
The Doctor: Oh, yes...
Cybercontroller: I can set you free. Would you not want that? A life without pain.
The Doctor: You might as well kill me.

— Doctor Who, "The Age of Steel"

Cyberman: Feeeee-lings? I do nooot unn-derstand that word.
The Doctor: Emotions! Love, pride, hate, fear! Have you no emotions, sir? Hmmm?
Cyberman: Come to Mondas and youuuu will have no neeeeed of ee-motions. You-will becoooome like us.

—Doctor Who, "The Tenth Planet"

Western Animation

"So what? I'm supposed to give up? Stop feeling things? Like you? Honestly, I pity you. You shut yourself off from the rest of the world, didn't you? 1,000 years of suffering, of burying your feelings, of hating yourself. That must have been hard."

—Anne to King Andrias, Amphibia

Katara: What's going on with you? In the desert, all you cared about was finding Appa. And now it's like you don't care about him at all.

Aang: You saw what I did out there. I was so angry about losing Appa, I couldn't control myself. I hated feeling like that.

Katara: But now you're not letting yourself feel anything. I know sometimes it hurts more to hope and it hurts more to care, but you have to promise me that you won't stop caring. Come on, you need a hug.

Aang: [rebuffs her, stoically bowing instead] Thank you for your concern, Katara. [walks away]

—Avatar: The Last Airbender, "The Serpent's Pass"

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