Quotes About Denial

We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effects and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of hazard. Even research men suffer from the handicap of inadequate methods of detecting the beginnings of injury. The lack of sufficiently delicate methods to detect injury before symptoms appear is one of the great unsolved problems in medicine.

Mustn't desire then be integral—a set of essential guideposts on the map of life's purpose? And mightn't its very denial then be a desecration?

How could desire be wrong—the question seized her—if each living being contained it? Each creature was born with the unthinking need to draw each next breath, find each next meal. Mustn't desire then be integral—a set of essential guideposts on the map of life's purpose? And mightn't its very denial then be a desecration?

Too late, too late, your love gave me life. Here am I the creature you made through your loving; by your passion you created the thing that I am. Who are you to deny me the right to love? But for you I need never have known existence.

People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they're children.

Denial couldn't be maintained.

One thing we've noticed is these days people see all kinds of things they don't want to see, so they go blind." "Selectively blind.

Irrational fear feeds on itself and grows. You must deny it.

It is human nature to know we die and still to disbelieve it; otherwise, we might not carry on. When

Truths we don't want to hear always make the teller ugly to us.

Denial endures because it soothes.

with high cognitive ability, to one degree or another, were often fools and should embrace their foolishness rather than deny it.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes. You can't worry about them for a minute. They're hopeless.

It is human nature to know we die and still to disbelieve it; otherwise, we might not carry on.

There was a certain comfort in denial. This fragile peace with her consciousness had to be maintained at all costs. Ignored and buried.

I'm sorry, Anna, but I…Anna, I just can't picture a baby at the end of all this. I'm sorry. I just cannot." His voice had risen, but now it was a whisper. "Especially not another man's baby…especially not that.

If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point.

We all believe lies that bring us more comfort than the truth.

This secular Leftist denial of human free will is one of the reasons the Left recoils from labeling evil as evil, and (correctly) ascribes talk about good and evil to the religious.

No matter how much one knows that something dreadful is going to happen in the future, one somehow never thinks it will be today.

he knew damned well that he was really the son of— He choked that thought off, shoving it violently to the back of his mind. "Son of" had brought Lord John vividly to mind, though.

No," he repeated, more sharply. "Of course I did not kill Gerald Siverly. What kind of flapdoodle is that?" Grey thought briefly of inquiring whether there was more than one sort of flapdoodle and, if so, what the categories might be, but thought better of it and ignored the question as rhetorical.

And while I would, if pushed, deny absolutely that it was my fault, it was undeniably on my account.

In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.