Quotes About Denial

People forget what they want to forget.

I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be

That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

The Houston Astros want to change the name of Enron Field where they play. I guess the Enron name could cause problems for them. Like players could steal a base and then deny it.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.

The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

Why is it that the most important stuff to listen to is almost always the stuff we don't want to hear?

There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear.

I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.

You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved.

I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't want to know what I'll be without you. I dont wanna know. I don't wanna know.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?

Your body, Lilly… don't you see? This is the body that gave birth to the human race." His words ran counter to everything that the world she lived in preached. Diets. Denial. An obsession with female bone instead of female flesh. The culture of youth and thinness. Of stinginess. Of disfigurement. Of fear.

Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.