Quotes About Denial

Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.

A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

This book, by Steven Pinker, is entitled THE BLANK SLATE: THE MODERN DENIAL OF HUMAN NATURE, and which, as the title unambiguously indicates, is a rather thundering broadside fired into the direction of the blank slate establishment. He is Professor of Psychology at MIT, has received many awards for his teaching, and for his earlier books HOW THE MIND WORKS, and THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT.

about death and violence. Noah would deny it.

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.

Se infelice è l'innamorato che invoca baci di cui non sa il sapore, mille volte più infelice è chi questo sapore gustò appena e poi gli fu negato.

It just wasn't possible to make him accept a reality different from his own.

If unhappy is the sweetheart who invokes kisses of which he does not know the flavour, a thousand times more unhappy is who this flavour tasted once and then was denied

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

The moderns say that they are leaving the past, because it is exhausted; but they lie. They are escaping from the past because it is so strong.

The world we live in is a mess. It does no good to deny it. And it does no good to deny that G. K. Chesterton prophetically described the mess we are in. But he also described why it has happened, and he proposed solutions for cleaning it up.

There is now a false idealism of turning Government into God, by a vague notion that it gives everything to everybody; to the denial of the liberty given by God, which is called life. . . .

One reason that the United States has not taken significant action on climate change is the success of the denial industry. Influential opinion leaders, backed by large sums of money, have successfully worked to cast doubt on mainstream climate science.

They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial.

That was Mrs. Roopy wearing a powdered wig and an army uniform." She may have been right, but I didn't want to admit it, because I hate her.

Here is what I say to the children who are our future: never underestimate how denial and a good old-fashioned mild learning disability can team up to come off as unwavering self-confidence.

Empathy is not only a personal feeling; it can be a potent force for political and social change. And thus the suppression or denial of empathy is a deliberate part of a cynical political calculus. Dividing people and stoking animosity can pave a path to power (and in many recent elections, it has). This has been well known since the time of the ancients. But these divisions inevitably come at the expense of the long-term health and welfare of the nation as a whole.

People... h?v? liv?d in a ??nditi?n of denial, di?t?rt?d feelings, ?nd ??m?ul?iv? b?h?vi?r?, ?nd as a r??ult, th?? h?v? developed l?w self-worth, deep ?h?m?, in?d??u???, ?nd ?ng?r.

These had explicitly denied that the demilitarized zone (DMZ) was an international border separating two independent states.