Quotes About Denial

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but who are you hiding from if it isn't yourself?

There are times when you'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

It is only when we welcome such spirits and give them entrance that they may reveal themselves to us. When we open to ask what comes to us, why it has come, we may grow and be enlarged by the dialogue that emerges. When we deny them entrance, they do not go away. They go underground, persist, perseverate, and prevail.

It is much easier to deny, blame others, project elsewhere, or bury it and just keep on rolling.

Onlar güzel insanlar, Onlar güzel insanlar, Onlar güzel insanlar, Kimse inkar edemez. Yalanc? deÄŸillerse, Yalan deÄŸillerse.

There's no-one as blind as the fellow that won't see, if you know what that means.

I had to feel sorry for Bubba's wife. In AA we called it denial. We take the asp to our breast and smile at the alarm we see in the eyes of others.

when folks wanna believe something, the truth ain't got no place in that compartment.

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.

I offered to pee on him, but they said no

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

I loved this woman. You can't just turn off that kind of feeling. But I loved a person who didn't exist. I loved someone Diana was pretending to be. Maybe the signs were there, but I refused to see them. Maybe I didn't want to see them.

No, no, no. We're not stopping to talk to Marty…" Hey, Marty, how ya doing, man?" No, no, The Duke, we don't need any cocaine today. Keep moving. Keep moving.

I'm not sleeping with him

She'd given me Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's famous book On Death and Dying. It described the stages in the death process: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

I love how passionate Elder McKinley is about his faith, but he's a perfectionist in a bad way... to the point he denies his true feelings. It's a common story, unfortunately.

Denial of contraception to women without the financial means to afford it could cause substantial economic burdens, and even greater burdens if the lack of contraception results in an unintended pregnancy.

I really can't imagine how anyone could, in good conscience, oppose the proposition that the states should be able to deny the status of marriage to same-sex unions.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

In the end I got a major newspaper in South East Asia to buy a whistleblower's account for a ludicrous bunch of money. Off I toddled, published the story, which the newspaper didn't dare do in the end and then of course I was unleashed into a rollercoaster of denial and backlash.

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.