Quotes About Denial

Albertine would in any case either not have given me any answer or else a "no" in which the "n" would have been too hesitant and the "o" too resonant. Albertine never recounted facts that might harm her,

I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them;

for it is not only by dint of lying to other people, but also by lying to oneself that one ceases to be aware that one is lying,

praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator. And I was well aware, too, that it was not merely a work of art

I'd seen all the ingredients; I'd just refused to see what they made. So

Denial is sometimes the only comfort you can offer yourself. Because once you let yourself feel, the misery is endless.

about her affair with Cassie. That meant Tiegan had no way of knowing Cassie had told me about it. Would Tiegan admit it? And what would she say about the blood in the trunk of her car?

The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

Though now the secretary of defense, Owen Leahy had come up through intelligence, and it showed. His posture suggested that not only would he not comment on the quality of the morning, he would neither confirm nor deny that it was in fact the a.m. There weren't many people who gave off so little to Cooper's eyes.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.

He (Friedrich Engel de Jánosis) stated clearly that he was the last Engel de Jánosis, when in fact he knew he was not. He left behind his mother, wife, and daughter, all of them Engel de Jánosis. And then there were the Hungarian Engel de Jánosis, his aunts, uncles, cousins still alive in Pécs and in other towns and villages in Hungary. He knew this. They were not dead, not yet anyway, but in his mind, they were. Already, the historian was rewriting history.

The rest of us have monsters too, but we must call them by other names, or pretend they don't exist...

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!

Hope is the denial of reality. - Raistlin

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it.

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

Sometimes we pretend we don't care, because it hurts to admit we still do.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. Richard Bach

You can hide from others, but you can't hide from yourself.

We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we've done with it.

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.