Denial Quotes

Denial Quote of the day

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.

They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped, '” he said. “They say “misdeed, ' “inappropriate touching, ' “mistake.' That's insulting. I'm not a mistake.

I was trying to keep God's pain at arms length.

Ben Scott couldn't be afraid of the supernatural. He didn't believe in the supernatural. Ben Scott was firmly convinced that he didn't believe in anything,

society has an embarrassing history of denial

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

Survival through denial. Works every time.

I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.

He may take long walksin the raining darkalmost aimlesslyto a spot of soaked grassin a neighbor’s open field.He’s decided this is the placefor you and him to meet again.

Don't expect anything from anyone unless you are prepared to accept denial.

The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.

False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is.

Silence is a lie that screams at the light.

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable

[denial] is an attempt to bring order to our lives.

The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").

Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.

An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.

Employment deprives you of the purpose of existence

We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.

Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?

I can't stop shaking. I need you. I want you. I can't let myself have you.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

No one answer is ever the answer.

The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.

Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are from any form of terrorism.

people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection

Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression?

You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.

Denial. It’s the only thing that keeps most of us from losing our sanity.

...victims of violent crime are not always believed...[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]

Time is denial's mortal enemy and is always victorious against it.

what you knowand don’t deny thatyou don’t knowand knowing thisyou knowwhat and whyyou don’t know.Right?

The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.

I wasn't crying about mothers, " he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.