Quotes About Denial

Stupid people rarely want to hear the truth.

Privacy,is what you shut your mouth about,Denial is what you shut your eyes against.

Denying realism amounts to megalomania.

Least Convincing Denial over Eating One's Crew

My new tune, of spite and indifference, drowned out the truth: that I'd mistaken the burn of jealousy for love. The heart wants what it is most denied, a hard lesson.

Do you deny it?" Grimani persisted. Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

fuck off! this isn't my fault....it wasn't my idea to kick it!" same conversation 1 minuet later

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

He who excuses himself accuses himself.

The life blood of a relationship becomes blocked by clots of repression and denial, and our creative, life-building energy is absorbed by exhausting strategies of avoidance.

I know that Marian Wallace was your girlfriend." "That isn't true." "Don't lie! I know that she came here to kill herself in your front yard. I know that she left Maya for you, but you either were too lazy or too much of a coward to claim her.

Phule had propounded the theory of the Aryan invasion as the source of oppression; dalit radicals of the 1920s took it to its extreme; Amedkar denied it.

We can't run away from what defines our fates. Who we are and what we believe in grow from the roots of our past, no matter how much we might try to deny it.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Jesus never told us to erase our ambition. Jesus never said to shun all thought of rewards. He told us to turn from earthly ambition and to shun earthly rewards. He said in effect, "Put yourself last here on earth, and in heaven you'll be first." That's a trade, not a complete denial! That thirst for glory you feel in your heart is part of what makes you human. Jesus just wants us to focus it on heaven, looking for our rewards there.

continue to be amazed at how reasonably intelligent individuals can actually believe their claims of innocence and not recognize the blatant self-rationalizations, selective perceptions, distortions of reality, denial, and self-deception in their

By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

Denial is a save-now-pay-later scheme, a contract written entirely in small print, for in the long run, the denying person knows the truth on some level, and it causes a constant low-grade anxiety.

Americans are experts at denial, a choir whose song could be titled, "Things Like That Don't Happen in This Neighborhood.

You also killed Despatov," he countered. "You and your damned seamen." It was the crocodile killed Despatov," I pointed out as reasonably as I could, still hoping to find a compromise. "We can hardly be held responsible for the actions of every crocodile on the River Beet-" SILENCE!" Bormann screamed.