Quotes About Denial

The hardest bit about losing people you loved wasn`t thinking about the memories you had, the ones that had already been made. No. The hardest bit was the stuff that should have been, but had now been denied.

Nora tried to act as if every sentence he said wasn't an animal running into the road.

I'm saying people can be real creative when it comes to ducking responsibility.

It never fails," Montrose said. "No matter what they do to you, afterwards it's like nothing happened. You're supposed to just be grateful you're still breathing.

None so blind as those that will not see.

When Peter would prove himself no disciple of Christ, he cursed and swore.

It's not incidental that Comyns and Rhys were women writers during the interwar period and just after, when a lot was permitted and a lot was denied for women. No way forward? No way back? Levitate.

Man is like a blind person who denies the existence of light because he doesn't see it. Light is a great mystery, for the blind!

there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")

Stop believing what you want to believe. It's unbecoming

Life is a muddle. It seems a brilliant muddle, if you are an optimist; a dull one, if you aren't; but in neither case can you deny that it is the muddlers who keep it going.

Ich bin nicht Stiller!

Allied powers provided for their own peoples levels of nourishment which they denied to others, including societies notionally under their protection.

It was impossible for most German civilians credibly to deny knowledge of the concentration camps or the slave-labour system:

The egregious error committed by US statesmen and commanders was not that of lying to the world, but rather that of lying to themselves.

Deny accidents and wrest fault from the stars.

To the degree that we deny the gift of life, we embrace death.

He examined everything freely, I hesitated in front of many things. He destroyed but did not build, saying what was not, but not what was. And denial is convincing; it sets neither boundaries nor goals for itself. It strives toward nothing; it defends nothing. It is harder to defend something than to attack it, because everything that is made reality constantly wears down, constantly deviates from the initial idea.

I guess I feel like grief is this huge part of everything," I say in a burst. "But you're supposed to act like it's not.

I can't bear the idea of looking deeply. Because you inevitably turn up horrible things.

Dennis had fallen asleep before Jules got home, though he denied it in that strange way that people often deny they've been sleeping.

No way," he said, shaking his head, shaking the image of Lise, bare-legged, her skirt hitched high, from his thoughts. "Lise, she's a sister to me." "Oh," she said, fingertips making circles just above the waist of her skirt. Wider and wider circles. "A sister," he repeated. He looked at her. There was something scratching again, in the corner above his eye, like those metal probes at the dentist clawing at your teeth.

Then I thought maybe she did know but didn't want to look at it. Maybe she did know but there's all kinds of lies you tell yourself when you want to.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.