Quotes About Denial

What is so distressing about the use of denial as a tactic is that you are left with nothing to deal with. It creates a sense of desperate frustration. There is no way to resolve a problem with someone who denies the existence of certain events and who insists that what you know to be real never happened.

Relabeling—a form of denial—takes a problem and hides it behind euphemisms.

What? Are you on crack? I did no such thing.

I'm not attracted to you." He winked. "It's okay. You can tell me. I'll keep your secret. You want me." "Only

Toda a capacidade de compreender está enraizada na capacidade de dizer não.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

La transparente, inmutable realidad que los humanos intentamos negar cada día – que estamos hechos de huesos, de calcio, de carne blanda y frágil – se materializa con nefasta claridad.

Yey more and more there seemed a bevy of things she was not supposed to think about and by virtue of trying not to, she hardly thought of anything else.

In the absence of strong political movements for human rights, the active process of bearing witness inevitably gives way to the active process of forgetting. Repression, dissociation, and denial are phenomena of social as well as individual consciousness.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Those who attempt to describe the atrocities that they have witnessed also risk their own credibility. To speak publicly about one's knowledge of atrocities is to invite the stigma that attaches to victims…. Denial, repression and dissociation operate on a Social, as well as an individual level.

As the Buddha says, "Suffering comes from both ignorance and denial." One

you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.

Les gens bien portants sont des malades qui s'ignorent.

Hay gentes dispuestas a creer lo increíble porque les resulta más consolador que afrontar la realidad

He gave her his best smile. His best I-almost-died-so-how-can-you-deny-me smile. Or at least that's how he hoped it appeared. The truth was, he wasn't a very accomplished flirt, and it might very well have come across as an Iam- mildly-deranged-so-it's-in-all-of-our-best-interests-if-youpretend- to-agree-with-me smile.

Billie tried not to think of George. But she wasn't successful. Like it or not, he was her who.

It's hard to believe that someone is gone when he looks so normal and at peace.

He didn't want to talk about it, he didn't want listen to explanations.

You disapprove of everything about me." He stepped toward her, his hand tightening on her arm. "That is so far from the truth as to be laughable.

Cuándo te has negado a un desafío? —Nunca —respondió, mirándolo directamente a los ojos. Él sonrió, y su mirada se volvió ardiente. —Esa es mi chica —murmuró él. —No soy… —Lo serás —susurró él, y antes de que ella pudiera pronunciar otra palabra, su boca apresó la de ella en un beso ardiente.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

I think Jose Aldo is a great fighter, has a great history, no one can deny that, but many people think I should go to bantamweight because I'm too small, and instead I went to 155 to fight someone who came as a top contender in the UFC. I was beating Ben Henderson before getting injured. Aldo won't fight at 155 because he doesn't want to.