Quotes About Denial

The history written, taught, and sworn to as 'the unvarnished truth' by the establishment—any establishment, left or right, conservative or liberal, capitalist or socialist or fascist—is generally revisionist, narrow in perspective, monolithic, and agenda-driven. In the worst case, it consists of one part denial and one part propaganda—in other words, a self-serving pack of lies.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

He respected the slight nervous shadow that crossed her face when he came too near her. But there arose out of this denial itself the perfume of a tenderness, that ghost of passion which, in the most unexpected relationship, can make even a whole lifetime devoted to irksome duty pass like a gracious dream.

lo que más ocupa al ser humano es aquello que rechaza

Transmutation, not presumptuous denial, is the weapon of the Master.

After reading it, I knew I had a serious problem. I don't drink, so that wasn't it. But everything else that characterized addiction—"stinkin' thinking"; the kind of thinking that is loaded down with circular rationalizations, distortions, and denial of reality that made you feel either you're crazy or everyone else is; repeating the same dysfunctional relationship patterns over and over and over again—I had it all.

Those in the system who have the clarity or courage to act as whistle blowers, who attempt to reveal the truth of the family pathology, may be perceived by the family, which is steeped in denial, as in some way problematic. Naming the dysfunctional behavior becomes the sin, not the dysfunctional behavior itself. These members may be cut off, humiliated, or even hated if they get too close to the truth, though much of this may be unconscious.

Simply bringing up the family's problems causes other family members, who cannot and will not see their own pathology, to want to kill the messenger. Again, the message—the truth—threatens their survival as a system. WHEN

Maybe I'm weak for music men. Maybe I'm weak, period. But I couldn't deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.

I'd cycled through the stages of rejection - denial, anger, homicidal mania, hating Matt's stupid face, and acceptance

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. None. None. I mean, I know that's hard for some people to believe, but, you know, I just don't.

There is no 'Bat Out of Hell III.' That should have never happened. To me, that record is nonexistent. It doesn't exist.

I think Americans are aware that they are involved in all sorts of violence around the world. They normally don't want to look at that.

Am I a racist? No. That simple. And if that's not good enough for you, too bad.

I am not guilty, I am innocent.

Having a scapegoat means not knowing that we have one.

This notion that manmade climate change is happening is wrong.

Every now and then, someone will stop me and say, 'Do I know you?' And I just say, 'Nope.'

If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

You can look in the mirror and try to hide it and cover it up, and it may work here or there, but there ain't no shirt or hat you can put on or haircut you can get to hide the fact that you're morbidly obese.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

In the Trump era, it's way more obvious extreme racism exists. But there are still a lot of people who think, 'We don't have a racist bone in our bodies.' We have to face the racism in ourselves.

If you act as if nothing has happened, and if nothing more comes of it, you will indeed find that nothing has happened after all.