Quotes About Denial

If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.

I won­der if run­ning is just an­oth­er fix to a fix to a fix to a fix to a fix to a prob­lem I can't re­mem­ber.

Because we love our pain. We love our drama. But we will never, ever admit that.

There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

My point is I know Brandy is maybe probably going to die, but I just can't get into it.

There are lots of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

Be­cause no­body wants bad news.

Hay un montón de cosas que deseamos ignorar sobre la gente que queremos.

It was hard not to love a man who so steadfastly ignored the awful truth about her. But it was even more difficult to respect him.

There are lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

La gente non vuole rimettere in sesto la propria vita. Nessuno vuole che i suoi problemi vengano risolti. I suoi drammi. Le sue distrazioni. Le sue storie risolte. I suoi casini ripuliti. Perché, che cosa mai le rimarrebbe? Solamente il grande spaventoso inconoscibile.

El aire estará demasiado cargado de algo. Tu cuerpo siempre estará dolorido o demasiado cansado. Tu padre, demasiado borracho. Tu mujer será demasiado fría. Siempre tendrás alguna excusa para no vivir tu vida.

We always do this, Mr. Whittier says. For the same reason our children's children's children's children will always have war and famine and disease. Because we love our pain. We love our drama. But we will never, ever admit it.

Then my answer is Double-No with a side order of Nope-Nuh-Uh and a couple sauce packets of Extra-Zesty Fuck-No Dressing.

Just because someone tells you in a reasonable way that you aren't really feeling what you're feeling, it doesn't make the feeling go away.

Love! Who said anything about love? Jaime

People who don't want to do something that they know they should do have marvelously inventive abilities to ignore what they know. They

At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them.

Logic is the last refuge of a coward.

People wore different kinds of chains across their lifetimes, but it wasn't hard to interpret rebellion, even when the rebels wore costumes to deny blame.

No slave had ever keeled over dead at a spinning wheel or been butchered for a tangle. But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it.

Wainwright was pale-skinned, but all the black boys knew from his hair and nose that he had some Negro blood. He beat the black boys for knowing what he pretended not to know about himself.

But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it.

Call things by other names as if it changes what they are. But that don't make them true.