Quotes About Denial

It means there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.

The elephant in the room. It can't be talked about. It can't be ignored.

You ever considered the possibility that you might be an alcoholic?" "Nope. Alcoholics go to meetings," he replies. "I don't go to meetings.

I have to say there is part of me that envies the moral clarity of the vegetarian," writes University of California journalism professor Michael Pollan, in a passage from his 2007 book, The Omnivore's Dilemma. "Yet part of me pities him, too. Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris."70 The trouble with dogmatic vegetarianism

Trump believed he would never be proven guilty; therefore, he was innocent. And he carried the total confidence and even serenity of the innocent—or at least of someone who knows how difficult it is to establish the guilt of a person capable of admitting nothing, of never wavering.

the Trump bubble. Trump was incapable of admitting vulnerability—any at all.

God will endure for as long as the reasons that brought him into being; And so will those who deny him.

We bury what we don't want to know. And sometimes it comes out in odd ways

Eigenlijk had hij het al veel Lichten en Donkers geweten, maar hij had het niet willen toegeven. Zonder Staart was niet-wolf.

And another had a very unhealthy love of clown porn. But I've tried to block that out.

I'm not going to marry you." "I'm not asking you to." "Good." He eyed me. "And you can wipe that horrified look off your face because it's obviously not true.

Chiar ?i un ateu are nevoie de Dumnezeu pentru a-L nega.

By nature, however, we are born ignorant. Therefore should we not try to learn? Some people produce more than the usual amount of androgens and therefore become excessively aggressive. Does that mean they should freely express violence? We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Cz?owiek jest niewolnikiem swego serca i zamyka oczy na to, co nie jest dla niego przyjemne, a wierzy w to, na co ma nadziej?.

We know we're not the problem, so we may decide that the other person is certifiably crazy.

we fell out of love, but only one of us was prepared to say it.

Lewis Carroll. He was an odd one. Real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Completely denied having anything to do with the Alice books. Daft as a brush. You'd have liked him!

I know you didn't want us. My brothers told me, and I told them they were wrong even though I knew they weren't. I clung to you because I wasn't going to let you just leave what you started. How can you tell me how hard it is to have children? You haven't even tried to be a mother. What right do you have? What makes you a mother?

To be a Taoist, one need not engage in fanatical denial of any part of life, nor does one need to leave family and career in order to gain a foothold on the path. One need only balance the various parts of one's personality and provide them with a strong focus.

Cl. In short, we ought to be blind throughout this play, and pretend not to see anything in it. Ur. We ought not to see what is not there.

I'm not letting you go," I told her. "And it's selfish and wrong and sooner or later you're going to wake up and realize that I can't love you the way you should be loved. Or want to be loved, and it doesn't matter.

I'm not talking about whether or not you'll send me a card next February." She shook her head. "I can't be with a withholder. I won't live with little denials." The way she said that, it sounded like he'd proposed.

recognize, with a slight shock, that I really don't believe how old I am, and when I do believe it I want to forget it.

Love denied, and the somatic experience of that denial, is?as de Rougemont recognized?the hidden, and gnostic/heretical, thread of Western History.