Quotes About Denial

She didn't apologize. She never did, except when apologies were totally unnecessary, so that people would deny them profusely.

Negation is the primal act of repression; but it at the same time liberates the mind to think about the repressed under the general condition that it is denied and thus remains essentially repressed.

An alcoholic promising not to drink again is roughly like anyone promising never to fart again

hay?r demedi. red red ediyorum. ne evet ne hay?r. red red red ediyorum dedi. te?ekkür ederim.

Yes," he said, "intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn't matter.

I'm still learning how dogged people can be in denial, even when their freedom or their lives are at stake.

Yes," he said, "intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike.

A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.

Yes," he said, "intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn't matter. A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.

intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn't matter. A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial.

This is just more denial: A dumb little game of "If we don't talk about bad things, maybe they won't happen.

Mas todos podemos aprender mais. E então, ensinar uns aos outros. Podemos parar de negar a realidade ou esperar que ela desapareça por mágica.

To hear and to see Even an obvious lie Again And again and again May be to say it, Almost by reflex Then to defend it Because we've said it And at last to embrace it Because we've defended it And because we cannot admit That we've embraced and defended An obvious lie.

She was too bright to take anything but the most superficial comfort from her denial. But even superficial comfort is better than none, I guess.

This is just more denial: A dumb little game of "If we don't talk about bad things, maybe they won't happen.

Una civilización que niega a la muerte, acaba por negar a la vida.

Which the Chicken and Which the Egg? He drinks because she scolds, he thinks; She thinks she scolds because he drinks; And nether will admit what's true, That he's a sot and she's a shrew.

The Bronx? No Thonx!

Taking cruelty for strength is the most common mistake of youth. Youth only knows life by the intensity of its own feelings—a continuous explosive fortissimo with a foot on the pedal. Youth knows nothing of that supreme sensitivity, the true sensitivity of the strong that denies cruelty; youth has no inkling of the force with which a barely audible pianissimo can strike under your heart.

we discussed the function of defense mechanisms and found that we were humbled by the power of that portion of our psyche, we began to understand that if it weren't for rationalization, sublimation, denial—all the little tricks we let ourselves perform—if instead we simply saw the world as it was, with nothing to protect us, honestly and courageously, it would break our hearts.

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

I don't want to hear about my death.

Man's love of truth is such that when he loves something which is not the truth, he pretends to himself that what he loves is the truth, and because he hates to be proved wrong, he will not allow himself to be convinced that he is deceiving himself. So he hates the real truth for what he takes to his heart in its place.

I heard about the bombings the same way everyone else heard about them, from the television or radio. I did not order them but was very glad for what happened to the Americans there.