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Quotes About Denial

Of two friends one is always the slave of the other, though often neither will admit it.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Kitsch is a German word born in the middle of the sentimental nineteenth century, and from German is entered all Western languages. Repeated use, however, has obliterated its original metaphysical meaning: kitsch is the absolute denial of shit, in both the literal and figurative sense of the word; kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.
~ Milan Kundera
It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and everyone acts as though it did not exist. This aesthetic ideal is called kitsch.
~ Milan Kundera
To be mortal is the most basic human experience and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.
~ Milan Kundera
Con que ligereza y con qué defectuosos materiales edifica el hombre sus excusas!
~ Milan Kundera
De eso se desprende que el ideal estético del acuerdo categórico con el ser es un mundo en el que la mierda es negada y todos se comportan como sino existiese. Este ideal estético se llama Kisth elimina lo esencialmente inaceptable
~ Milan Kundera
Winston Churchill wrote: 'Most of us often encounter the truth but we usually pick ourselves up and pretend it did not happen.
~ Milo Wolff
We deny our Lord whenever, like Demas, we through love of this present world forsake the course of duty which Christ has plainly pointed out to us.
~ Reginald Heber
Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight
~ Sarah McLachlan
People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.
~ Carol Plum-Ucci
It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love. Love makes us liars.
~ Cassandra Clare
There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.
~ Stephen King, Bag of Bones
I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.
~ Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom
Denial can be beautifulBut only when you're a fantastic liar
~ Kim Holden, All of It
It's been said that I have a problem admitting when I'm wrong. The main reason is because I never am.
~ Shamara Ray, Recipe for Love
If we all knew who God really was and what he really wanted for each and every one of us, we would all know that only a fool could really deny him.
~ Criss Jami
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does
~ Torquato Tasso
It is easier to lie to yourself than hear others tell you that tell you that you are a fool.
~ Hilary Grossman, Dangled Carat
One doesn't fall in love... one digs a hole for himself to trip in... claiming he didn't see it coming
~ A.M.M Alusi
The director mentions the whispers about Clifton's sexual orientation, a supposed gig on a porn site years ago, a rumor about a very famous actor and a tryst in Santa Barbara and Clifton's denial in a Rolling Stone cover story about the very famous actor's new movie which Clifton had a small part in: 'We're so into girls it's ridiculous.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Don't tell me he was another serial killer, Bateman. Not another serial killer." "No, McDufus, he wasn't a serial killer
~ Bret Easton Ellis
It was when she started dealing coke so she could lose weight. It had worked, sort of. I think she still has a fat ass, and can look dumpy, and has dried-out black hair and writes awful poetry and I'm pissed off that I let her get into that position of denying me.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
I told you, dude," Van Patten says and then patiently restates his facts. "We can't get that. It's like zero zero zero point oh one percentage—
~ Bret Easton Ellis