Quotes About Denial

want the lies to end. I pull my gun from my purse and point it at him. "Who are you to me, Kayden? Who am I?" from Denial

My family's big on denial. And if we denied something long enough, we thought it'd go away. I know that's not how it works, but we're in denial about that, too.

Perhaps denial is the mind's way of protecting the heart from a sucker punch it can't handle. Or maybe it's simpler than that. Maybe denial in the face of overwhelming evidence is a mere byproduct of stubbornness.

If I don't tell anyone, it'll never be true.

Kaitlyn:I though- that you might need something. Gabe:I don't need anything from anyone! Kaitlyn: I think you're lying

Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

Still, dry eyes for me. Maybe I need the remedial grief group. Maybe there's a book, The Idiot's Guide to Grief. Or Denial for Dummies.

If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the rejection is universal, then it is the self-destructive proposition that there are no true propositions. If the rejection is limited to the dogmas, then it is just a roundabout way of saying that all the dogmas are false.

I don't know about you, but I say we shoot the fuckers, bury the bodies and deny they were ever here." - Mordecai

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Sometimes those closest are the most blind to the Monster who lives among them.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Did he pay you to have an abortion, retract your accusation, and they in turn dropped stalking charges? He treated you like shit, Charley, and I bet that he said 'it never happened.' Did I get that right?" She swears viciously on the other end. I hear her clearing her throat, then blowing her nose.

Carl Jung said, "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Avoidance is a simple way of coping by not having to cope.

The things we protest against the most are often the very things we need to look at.

Many people don't know that Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's familiar stages of grieving—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance—were conceived in the context of terminally ill patients learning to accept their own deaths. It wasn't until decades later that the model came to be used for the grieving process more generally.

You can't get through your pain by diminishing it, he reminded me. You get through your pain by accepting it and figuring out what to do with it. You can't change what you're denying or minimizing. And, of course, often what seen like trivial worries are manifestations of deeper ones.

Typically, a patient might have a difficult session about a childhood trauma, then come in the next week and announce that therapy is no longer needed.

You can't get through your pain by diminishing it, he reminded me. You get through your pain by accepting it and figuring out what to do with it. You can't change what you're denying or minimizing.

reaction formation, unacceptable feelings or impulses are expressed as their opposite,

avoidance is almost always about fear.

even a little bit?" "No." She

You're green. Tell me you have the flu." "No." "The shoulder?" "Yeah." "Well, fuck me." "I'd rather not.