Quotes About Denial

Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.

When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.

Stop telling the truth about my record!

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape.

I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.

Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.

Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.