I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
Alanis MorissetteRead
My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects the struggle of managing intense emotions, particularly anger, due to fear of negative consequences in relationships.
Alanis Morissette's quote highlights the internal conflict many individuals face when dealing with strong emotions, especially anger. She speaks from personal experience, expressing how her fear of unleashing this anger resulted in suppressing her feelings, primarily out of concern for triggering adverse reactions in the men around her. This struggle with emotional expression can often lead to unresolved feelings and complicated relationships.
Themes
EmotionsAngerRelationshipsFearExpression
In practice
Example use cases
During a therapy session discussing emotional management.
More from Alanis Morissette
All quotes →Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.
Alanis MorissetteRead
To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.
Alanis MorissetteRead
I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.
Alanis MorissetteRead
My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.
Alanis MorissetteRead
When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
Alanis MorissetteRead
Similar quotes
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
AristophanesRead
Meditate or spend silent time in nature with your partner. When going for a walk or sitting in the car or at home, become comfortable with being in stillness together. Stillness cannot and need not be created. Just be receptive to the stillness that is already there, but is usually obscured by mental noise.
Eckhart TolleRead
I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
Elton JohnRead
I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.
Kurt CobainRead
Enjoy everything. Need nothing. Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship .. The greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you, to need you for nothing.
Neale Donald WalschRead
You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
Alan BallRead