Quotes About Denial

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.

I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want to tell her what she means to me, but I never actually say the words. After all, to acknowledge Delia as a drug, I'd have to face the fact that one day I might have to go without her and this I can't do.

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

Go fuck yourself Judge. Motion denied. answers the judge dryly.

You can believe, for example, that a dead-end job is a career. You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to potentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

I may be a really bad person but I'm not aware enough to see that I'm a bad person.

Busy are they who can't face the reality

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

Humor explained is humor denied

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Life is full of attachments, so being single is a state of inadvertent denial.

A mind may appreciate anyone, but it takes only heart to respect someone and thats applicable to everyone and so trust, none could ever honestly deny the fact that the heart is better than the mind.

We just went out for dinner. We didn't participate in a Roman orgy, I swear.

So ... you like her, Gabe?' Lauren pressed. 'Yes,' he answered, starting work on his spreadsheet again in an effort to stave off more questions. 'She's great, isn't she?' Shit. A smile tugged at his mouth and Lauren was standing right next to him. No question she could see it. He tried to cover himself by changing the subject.

No, no, now you listen—you—this whole time. The bruises—it was Lehrer. Not Gordon. Lehrer. He—I was fourteen, Noam! I was . . . but he . . . and I couldn't tell anyone because, god, didn't even need his power!" Dara laughed, a mad sound, and he wasn't touching Noam anymore, had both hands pressed up against his own skull. "No one believed me.

If unloving mothers were able to see their behavious as abusive, they either would stop behaving that way or they would get help for their dysfunction. But many cannot: instead, they deny it, to themselves, their families, and the world at large, in order to avoid a sense of guilt, to avoid having to make changes in their lives, or to avoid the bruising awareness that they, too, were unloved children.

You know how Americans deal with it? They pretend they are eternally innocent no matter how many times they lose their innocence. The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just. At least we who believe in our own guilt know what dark things we can do.

I am a bad refugee because I insist on seeing the historical reasons that create refugees and the historical reasons for denying refugee status to certain populations.

Rumors. They are there to be denied, or if the market is open, to be traded on.

Does anyone ever lie to us more than we lie to ourselves?

those who deny the existence of God are suppressing the truth because of their wickedness and rebellion.

when a person says that he believes in the absolute sovereignty of God but then denies the sovereignty of God when it comes to certain things, creatures, and events, he deceives himself. He does not really assent to the absolute sovereignty of God.