Quotes About Denial

Hearing the truth is like grabbing smoke in our family," Joel said.

crime? No, he was not. He insisted he knew nothing

He denied everything he had said about carrying the two Glasgow letters from Mary to Bothwell.

All I see is someone running away from who he really is. I ain't running away, I called back. And that was the biggest lie I'd ever told.

In order to protect our jobs, our visas, our profits, our chances of receiving good grades, our sanity, we pretend not to see, we sanitise our own perception, filtering out the pain, pretending that it is not here but out there, far away, in Africa, in Russia, a hundred years ago, in an otherness that, by being alien, cleanses our own experience of all negativity.

Identity negates possibility, denies openness to other life. Identity kills, both metaphorically and very, very literally.

The emotional garbage I had carried all of those years - the prejudice and the denial, the shame and the guilt - was dissolved by understanding that the Other is not other at all.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a kind of support.' And who can blame them? It is just infuriating to argue with someone like that; because of an experience that has denied them their humanity, they go around denying another kind of humanity in others, which is the truth of human variety -- it stands alongside our sameness.

Non vi sono scuse per la crudeltà, ma - in un orfanotrofio - forse si è obbligati a negare amore; se non riesce a negare amore, a trattenerti dall'amare, creerai un orfanotrofio che nessun orfano lascerà volentieri. Creerai un Homer Wells: cioè un vero orfano, dato che la sua casa sarà sempre a St. Clouds.

She'd become more concerned about wasting days than wasting profits. It was as if her life had suddenly gained an importance and a weight it previously didn't have, or that she'd denied. She didn't know the reason.

I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—'t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.

I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people agree that I was right. None of them ever accused me of being responsible for what had happened to Phineas, either because they could not believe it or because they could not understand it. I would have talked about that, but they would not, and I would not talk about Phineas in any other way.

es la diferencia, fundamental en el campo de la estrategia, entre respetar las limitaciones y negar su existencia.

I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and, as everyone knows, tomorrow never comes.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

I try to help people see they're going to have these times in which they turn away, in which they deny Christ and their faith grows cold, their convictions weakened; but Jesus is waiting.

What hurts is being forgotten by someone you'd never forget, but what hurts more is pretending that it doesn't hurt you at all.

I don't hate you because you left. I hate you because you pretended that you wouldn't...

The LORD sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground. The lord created us with the truth inside of us, he also give us the option of free choice to deny it!