Quotes About Denial

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

Problems that are not resolved today will most likely never be resolved. It hurts to hear, but it's the truth.

There is never 'a' lie but immediately a second lie – the one we tell ourselves that we've not told a lie.

You can avoid the issues from abuse for only so long. Sooner or later, the problems in your life cause you to either face it or go deeper into denial. Most of you will eventually be forced into admitting that it is indeed the sexual abuse that is the root of your problems. Even then, the tendency will be to 'forgive and forget' in the belief that by doing so the pain will be assuaged.

hangimiz, kaç?n?lmaz oldu?u bilinen ?eyler kar??s?nda bile, kendini biraz daha aldatmaktan, bu kaç?n?lmazdan kaç?labilece?i, belki de bu korkular?n ba?a hiç gelmeyece?i umuduna -bütün bo?lu?unu bilerek- kap?lmak çocuklu?unu göstermekten utanç duydu?

That week we tried everything to bury our heads in the sand. But the problem remains the same world over; the sand is never quite deep enough.

I am going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

The gas station attendant looks at the car and says, "You got a flat tire." I said, "No, the other three just swelled up."

On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.

When we came to Christ, it was humility to honestly assess ourselves as sinners. To go back and say that's still who we are is to deny what Christ did for us. Doing that is no longer humbling ourselves, it's undercutting the resurrection power God has given us to live like Him.

Climate change has become such a familiar term that we tend to read past it- it's part of our mental furniture, like urban sprawl or gun violence.

So: global warming is the ultimate problem of oil companies because oil causes it, and it's the ultimate problem for government haters because without government intervention, you can't solve it. Those twin existential threats, to cash and to worldview, meant that there was never any shortage of resources for the task of denying climate change.

Privilege lies in obliviousness. (White privilege, for instance, involves being able to reliably forget that race matters.)

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

Despite being more connected than ever before, we're not particularly generous toward, or understanding of, one another, preferring to hide behind denial and personal bias.

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

I saw 'Wild,' and I thought, 'Wow, this is a lot of things, but one of the things is it's a therapist's dream and a climate-change denier's nightmare.'

I certainly did work at an amusement park. In 1985. Wow - I'm in denial about the year. I was in college, and I had no skills.

We all buy our meat wrapped in plastic because we don't like to think about the animal that died.

Lack of Control Loophole: Weirdly, we often have an illusion of control over things we can't control—"If I spend a lot of time worrying, the plane is less likely to crash," "If I play my lucky numbers, I'll win the lottery eventually"—but deny control over things we can control ("If my cell phone buzzes, I have to check it"). We argue that circumstances force us to break a habit, but often, we have more control than we admit.

This Doesn't Count" Loophole: We tell ourselves that for some reason, this circumstance doesn't "count.

It was all of a piece, all a form of aggression. Pimping the land and animals. Profit at the expense of all else. Exclusion and exclusivity. Willful ignorance and denial. As I drove, I tried to register how it felt "not to be.

If you participate in life, you don't see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.