Quotes About Denial

The illusory paradise that represented a total denial of earthly life is no longer projected into the heavens, it is embedded in earthly life itself.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead.

In other words, the deliberate denial of factual truth—the ability to lie—and the capacity to change facts—the ability to act—are interconnected; they owe their existence to the same source: imagination.

When I got home, I poured myself one last quick drink. I took a deep sip and let the warm liquor travel to destinations well known. Yes, I drink. But I'm not a drunk. That's not denial. I know I flirt with being an alcoholic. I also know that flirting with alcoholism is about as safe as flirting with a mobster's underage daughter. But so far, the flirting hasn't led to coupling. I'm smart enough to know that might not last. Chloe

For the first time Mike felt on the downside of life's roller coaster—the back nine of life, as his golfer friends put it. You know it, of course. When you hit thirty-five or forty, you know on one level that you are no longer the physical specimen you once were. But denial is a pretty powerful thing. Now, at the tender of age of forty-six, he knew that no matter what he did, the slide would not only continue but accelerate. Cheerful thought. The

If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.

I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.

There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies.

When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade.

The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied -- prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done.

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.

We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.