Quotes About Denial

To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.

Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.

By telling lie you can hide the truth, but u can't reject it.

Everybody hates lie but nobody wants to hear the truth.

One thing I think, about humans is that we'd rather live in a comfortable lie then in an unpleasant truth.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself

People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.

I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

When we are confronted with the knowledge that our life isn't under our control, we have a choice. We can continue in denial and self-righteousness, or we can face the fact that we have been blind to some important issues. If we become willing to be led into recovery and into a whole new way of life, we will find true power.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

I'll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.

Now you're the adult who doesn't believe this is really happening. And, what always happens to that adult? Do you still remember, or do you forget all the true things when you grow up, Peter Pan?

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16)

Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.

The greatest barrier to wealth creation is the denial of Cosmic Ordering.