Quotes About Denial

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to realize my authentic self. I felt the need to lie, even to myself, insisting: I am straight.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

I don't think I ate bat. I definitely didn't intentionally eat bat.

The challenge with Donald Trump is that he'll deny things he said the day before or even in the same interview. And then sometimes when you try and talk about a fact that he misstated or something that he said out loud that he now disagrees with himself on, it's very frustrating.

The signs accumulated. But I did not respond. I would not wake up. We will not wake up. This terrifying sleep of denial. Is it an underlying belief that we as a human species are not worth it? Do we secretly feel we have lost our right to be here in all our selfishness and stupidity, our cruelty and greed?

The greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

ya verás como nos echan en cara a las víctimas que nos negamos a mirar hacia el futuro. Dirán que buscamos venganza. Algunos ya han empezado a decirlo.

to deny someone an education is not just a crime but a sin, because you are denying that person the opportunity to realize who he or she is meant to be.

Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.

The chain of events begins with the denial of full scale employment and advancement to Black males so that they cannot adequately support themselves, their wives and their children.

Choose a lie that others wish to believe" was written beneath it. "They will cling to it, even if it is proven false before their face. If anyone tries to show them the Truth, they will turn on them and fight them tooth and nail.

To argue otherwise was to lie to oneself.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.

Denying the existence of God cannot make Him go away any more than denying the existence of the Internal Revenue Service can make the tax man vanish. Many people who imagine a god of their own choosing will be horrified when they stand before the true God of heaven.

Hers was not love lost; it was love denied.

This feeble attempt at self-deception only makes the truth harder when you're forced to meet it.

I have made it a rule never to deny a false report, except under very exceptional circumstances. In nine cases out of ten the denying of the report simply calls attention to the original statement in a way to magnify it. Many people who did not see the original false report will see the denial and will then begin to search for the original report to find out what it was.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

We learn to "act nice" and deny that we are angry, and we make ourselves sick in the process of denial. This is one of the main areas in which something we can't tell the truth about ruins our lives.

One of these games is called, "Okay, okay, I'm guilty." This game is to make it look like you have taken responsibility for yourself when you haven't. Admitting you are guilty is a great way to avoid being responsible.