Quotes About Denial

Look away, look away, look away …

Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when the killing is slow and spread over a hundred years, no one notices. Where there are no mass graves, no one notices. American outrage is always for show. It has a shelf life.

Look," says the Puritan preacher, the doctrine is "as in nature, reason teacheth and experience evidenceth"; to deny it "is to go against the experience of all ages, the common sense of all men.

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

I was appalled at how much pressure my clients were getting to just forgive and forget. Consequently, many of them were diving right back into denial, and minimizing all the trauma that they had endured. Their recovery processes then, screeched to a halt as their inner critics denigrated them for being so unforgiving.

Emotional Neglect: The Core Wound In Complex PTSD Minimization about the damage caused by extensive emotional neglect is at the core of the Cptsd denial onion. Our journey of recovering takes a quantum leap when we really feel and understand how devastating it was to be emotionally abandoned.

us . . . has become in our country the national and private style. We have established, with awesome verve, the animal of denial as the guiding beast of the nation's life.

person injures and exhausts himself in compulsive attempts to avoid a disavowed feeling, and actually becomes more stuck

Advanced recovery also correlates with letting go of the salvation fantasy that you will never have another flashback. Giving up the salvation fantasy is another one of those two steps forward, one step backward processes. We typically have to wrestle with denial a great deal to increasingly accept the unfair reality that we will never be totally flashback-free.

We may deny that an event occurred, or we may act as though it was unimportant. For instance, when someone we love dies, or when we are injured or violated, we may act as though nothing has happened, because the emotions that come with truly acknowledging the situation are too painful. In addition, dissociation may be experienced as part of the body being disconnected or almost absent. Frequently, chronic pain represents a part of the body that has been dissociated.

The first truth, Buddha taught his disciples, is that suffering is part of the human condition. If we simply try to avoid confronting painful experiences, there is no way to begin the healing process. In fact, this denial creates the very conditions that promote and prolong unnecessary suffering.

Some patients choose not to pursue treatment out of a sense of denial about the tumor. They may think, "Maybe they're wrong. Why take these risks associated with treatment? I don't want to put my family through this and my insurance won't cover it.

Faith is an admirable trait. It's good to have faith in another person. But when faith is used as a substitute for reality, then it becomes a crutch for refusing to deal with that reality.

You believe what you must in order to stave off the conviction that it's all a tale told by an idiot

Therefore, flee at once to your home! I said I would richly reward you, but instead the LORD has denied your reward.”

The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.

So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.

“I have just one small request of you,” she said. “Do not deny me.” “Make your request, my mother,” the king replied, “for I will not deny you.”

this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”

rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.

to deny a man justice before the Most High,

“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”