Quotes About Denial

Marry me, love me, above all, look after me. somebody had to be responsible for her, besides herself. That was what women had been led to expect and hardly any price was too high. Loneliness, heartache, denial, all grist to the mill.

Skepticism as propounded by Pyrrho of Elis (365-275 B.C.) and by Timon, Sextus Empiricus said that those who seek must find or deny they have found or can find, or persevere in the inquiry.

Like every family, mine is dysfunctional. Here as well, we find two distinct groups: families who admit it, and families who don't and go on pretending.

you can never really get rid of a lie you've convinced yourself is true.

Auch, wenn ihre Nachbarn litten - solange das Leid nicht bei ihnen selbst Einkehr hielt, zogen sie es vor, wegzusehen und so zu tun, als würden die schlechten Dinge nicht existieren. Es war nicht immer Feigheit. Für manche erforderte das Leben an sich schon sehr viel Mut.

How many times in your life have you been told that something is one way, while you're staring at something entirely different? If you're like most people, when you mention that something is amiss, you get slapped down, either verbally, emotionally, or physically, or told that you're nuts or stupid.

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

An artist has no need to express his mind directly in his work for it to express the quality of that mind; it has indeed been said that the highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist, who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

It was around Clifford's era that Thomas Huxley coined the term agnostic, which did not exist before the nineteenth century. Agnostics, Huxley said, "totally refuse to commit" to either denying or affirming the supernatural.

To survive or to perish in denial, were equal triumphs, were two fronts in a long battle.

I'm continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too." Attavio

As far as Kiva could tell, whenever selfish humans encountered a wrenching, life-altering crisis, they embarked on a journey of five distinct stages: Denial. Denial. Denial. Fucking Denial. Oh shit everything is terrible grab what you can and run.

I'm continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too.

I don't know that it will matter even then," Cardenia said. "I'm continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too.

Thus arises suffering—from our ignorance of the truth of life and our refusal to accept that truth. Our

Everyone was always in danger, after all. From cancer, from car crashes and plane crashes, from criminals. Most people managed denial; managed to pretend they were safe.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

Samuel may have thought and played and philosophized about death, hut he did not really believe in it. His world did not have death as a member. He, and all around him, was immortal. When real death came it was an outrage, a denial of the immortality he deeply felt, and the one crack in his wall caused the whole structure to crash. I think he had always thought he could argue himself out of death. It was a personal opponent and one he could lick.

And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt and fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

None but a mule denies his family.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.