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Quotes About Denial

unser Rilke-Herz - ehe der Clown kräht - haben wir es dreimal verleugnet.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.
~ Woody Allen
In retrospect, the red flags existed every few feet, but nature provides us with a denial mechanism, else we couldn't make it through the days, as Freud teaches us, as Nietzsche teaches us, as O'Neill teaches us, as T. S. Eliot teaches us. Unfortunately, I was never a good student.
~ Woody Allen
Harriet, co my takiego z?ego zrobili?my? - Nigdy nie spojrzeli?my w twarz rzeczywisto?ci.
~ Woody Allen
The issue was that my lawyers had accused Dershowitz of saying he could make the whole case go away for seven million dollars. Four lawyers in a room testified he made that offer. He denied it furiously, his mother looking on proudly in the courtroom as her son performed.
~ Woody Allen
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
~ Christopher Lasch
You could literally halt epidemics in their tracks with this one remedy," he said. He flashed two fingers up in a peace sign, then slowly rotated them downward till they were scissoring through space. The Running Man. "So simple," he said. "Just move your legs. Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.
~ Christopher McDougall
Mental health is the ability to deny reality and repress feelings within the boundaries and parameters established by one's peer group(s). — Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D.
~ Unknown
PRESCRIPTION FOR REBELLION' — REVISITED BY CHRISTOPHER S. HYATT, PH.D. Mental health is the ability to deny reality and repress feelings within the boundaries and parameters established by one's peer group(s). — Christopher S. Hyatt,
~ Unknown
The "legalization" established at Wannsee (and in related laws and decrees) achieved a relatively smooth linkage between the surface world of wartime life and the officially denied world of mass extermination.
~ Christopher Simpson
When society denies that ritual abuse exists, it literally denies survivors permission to heal.
~ Unknown
How can you not have any regrets? It's impossible. No regrets? Bullshit. I don't believe anybody who tells me that.
~ Chuck Barris
Weather today is an increasing trend toward denial.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Like everyone else at the Anchorage, except maybe for Natalie, Jonah had developed the blinders that allowed him to dance on. That prevented him from seeing the gradual decline of everyone around him; that allowed him to pretend that they weren't all heading for the same tragic end. The band played on as the ship sank beneath them. Distracted by the magic of music, they would keep dancing until the waves closed over their heads.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
I . . . what do you mean? I don't know any Angelique." Catherine stared at him in surprise. "Why, Garren, of course you know Angelique, the clerk in my shop in Whitehall?" Garren planted both hands on the table and pushed to his feet. "Let's go. This is a waste of time." "It says . . ." The seer frowned, as if trying to make out a hazy script. "It says, 'I'm not going to sleep with you anymore, you faithless bastard.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't.
~ Unknown
Emma hung up and hugged her pillow tight to her chest. He shouldn't be making her feel this special and desired. He was just a friend. Right, just a friend. She wasn't even fooling herself anymore.
~ Unknown
I was first drawn to you thinking you were going to teach me something more than that. I needed that which I sensed in you and which you have always denied.
~ Clarice Lispector
Es que todo lo que tengo no se puede dar. Ni tomar. Yo misma puedo morir de sed ante mí. La soledad está mezclada en mi esencia... [...] -Cuando me acerqué- dijo, él sardónico- pensé que ibas a enseñarme algo más que eso. Necesitaba aquello que había adivinado en ti y que tú siempre me negaste.
~ Clarice Lispector
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
~ Claud Cockburn
From beginning to end, all this phony relationship can offer you is a toxic combination of fake love and real abuse. He constructs the psychopathic bond through deception and manipulation. You maintain it through self-sacrifice and denial.
~ Unknown
porque la verdad que se nos niega duele hasta el último día.
~ Unknown
Lo sentí cercano, hay mucha gente que no es ciega y, de todos modos, no quiere ver. Quizá tomándoles la mano lo logren
~ Unknown