Quotes About Denial

Typically we see such hardship as an obstacle to what we think we should be—healthy, good-looking, free of discomfort. We consider suffering as annoying at best, meaningless at worst. We strive to get rid of our pains in whatever way we can. A part of us prefers the illusion that our losses are not real, that they come only as temporary interruptions. We thereby expend much energy in denial. "They should not prevent us from holding on to the real thing," we say to ourselves.

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

If you were married to a dipsomaniac, would you pretend that the mania for alcohol was perfectly harmless?

I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.

George H.W. Bush said we will lead on climate change, and we'll lead from the top. That was 30 years ago. And now Republicans can't even acknowledge that climate change is human caused or real because of the outside spending in our elections.

I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

I live in New York City. I'm 5-foot-9 and wear Rockport shoes that make me 5-foot-91/2. They're not lifts - I deny that - but they do set off the airport metal detector. My hair is starting to gray a little. I have a gold tooth in the back.

'Sticky' is about reaching a point in a relationship where you both realize you guys shouldn't be dating, but you're doing it anyway just because you like to have that sense of just being able to be honest with the person and comfortable with the person. You kind of ignore all of the signs and red flags because you really want to like the person.

The new disease was named chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and the NFL fervently and repeatedly denied that such a thing had anything to do with the league or its players.

The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

Drugs shift the way that we think. So, yeah, the logical thing would be to get help, but that's not the way addicts operate, which is why it's really, really hard to get someone to understand that they need treatment.

Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining this denial of reality takes tremendous emotional and psychic energy.

The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see when it's about yourself. If you don't want to know the truth, you'll do anything to disguise it.

The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.

It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them, they accept it, even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

...how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

The truth is no longer hidden. Now people are hidding from the truth

Refusal to accept the truth is denial of divine self.

One day he'll realize he is and was wrong. But that's for him to figure out. You can't change people or make them realize things they don't want to see.

I thought if I told no one it might not be true.

Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.