Quotes About Denial

I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.

On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay.

The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism.

We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that's wrong and you've got to do something about it, especially if you're in a position of power, it won't change.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

argue that the physical world matters no less today, but we are in denial about its power and relevance. We seek to control it, to hold it steady, and to marginalize it ideologically by worshipping Silicon Valley and elevating the value and power of information. We

People often say that the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try to avoid it.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

The purpose of all of this (left hemisphere's way of choosing denial or repression over considering an anomaly) is to impose stability on behavior and to prevent vacillation because indecisiveness doesn't serve any purpose. Any decision, so long as it is probably correct, is better than no decision at all. A perpetually fickle general will never win a war.

People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.

knowledge that men deliberately refused to perceive the obvious even when such perception was to their own advantage. Still optimistic in spite of the War, I had believed that statesmen needed only to realise the mistakes of the past in order to avoid them, only

the fact that there was no global warming

the writer Upton Sinclair once wrote: `It is difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on his not understanding it.

When Williams unleashed his fury on Po Toke, the old mahout, sobbing, admitted that Bandoola was dead. He claimed he did not know what had happened.

For so many people, the stronger the evidence of failed strategies, the deeper they cling to their ways.

The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains a gap in scientific knowledge. But I deny that we are bereft of any conceivable way to account for that origin scientifically.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

That's the beauty of alcohol. If you don't remember it, it didn't happen.

The subject of pain is the business I am in - to give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence of pain cannot be denied. I propose no remedies or excuses.

He would never believe, in his wildest dreams ,that she no longer loved him. She had said it once, but he would dismiss these sorts of things as temperament or wine as if a bottle contained an infusion of foreign thoughts with which she had innocently poisoned herself.

No. It happened. But if it simplifies your life to disbelieve it, then do so.