Quotes About Denial

There's no reason for any of us to face reality if we don't like it.

From a contemporary interpersonal point of view, there is no emotionally neutral position. The analyst will get caught up in the patient's dynamics no matter how hard he tries not to. The very idea that he might be free of the interactional mix itself is a problem, because it blinds the analyst to his own involvement and requires the patient to collude in that denial. Thus

Her work suggested that the use of denial, as well as that of projection and introjection, signaled, in the adult, disturbances that were rooted in developmentally early phases of childhood.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

You can't handle the truth!

People don't want to know the truth.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently of our perspectives and interests.

Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always-always-makes itself known.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.