Quotes About Denial

But beware: some people who are unresponsive, withdrawn, insensitive, or cut off from their feelings may try to convince others that there is nothing wrong with them and everything wrong with their partner. Men tend to do that more than women.

they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.

Here were two people who had penetrated farther than she into the labyrinth of the wedded state, and struggled through some of its thorniest passages; and yet both, one consciously, the other half-unaware, testified to the mysterious fact which was already dawning on her: that the influence of a marriage begun in mutual understanding is too deep not to reassert itself even in the moment of flight and denial.

Much like to the mole in Æsopes fable, that, being blynd her selfe, would in no wise be perswaded that any beast could see.

Stevie: (Not listening) That you can do these two things... and not understand how it... SHATTERS THE GLASS!!?? How it cannot be dealt with-how stop and forgiveness have nothing to do with it? and how I am destroyed? How you are? How I cannot admit it though I know it!? How I cannot deny it because I cannot admit it!? Cannot admit it, because it is outside of denying!?

What happens when people are raised on a steady diet of "You are great, you can do anything, you deserve it, you are the best, you can get what you want"? Sooner or later they find that they are not great, they can't do everything, they are not the best, and they can't control it all. Depression and denial are the only two options left.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

rechazo a la inversa. Acepto para destruir. Digo sí para acentuar mi negación tácita.

Cómo querer odiar a quien no te ama. Sórdido deseo, el más desenfrenado, el imposible de renunciar. Querer negar a quien no te ama, no te cubre, no te ampara quien no te protege. —¿Qué decirte sino que no puedo? No poder hablar es un acto difícil de contar con palabras. Por eso no se lo dije.

no me condenes, dije llorando como nunca he llorado, pidiéndole, rogándole, sos tan diferente, dijo, tan diferente, aquí sus ojos serios porque calculaba, sí, sin duda calculaba que yo iba a traer el escándalo de la poesía a su vida calculada de horarios y encuentros nada entrañables, negándome como quien se niega al sol, ocupado en preparar su suicidio. El mío vendrá pronto. Yo no puedo vivir. Esto lo sé. Lo he sabido siempre. Siempre lo supe. Ahora lo sé.

Matarse es siempre una negación brutal. Pero matarse en plena juventud, en la hora del amor y la primavera es un insulto a la naturaleza.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

Coloro i quali avevano impugnato così risolutamente, e così a lungo, che ci fosse vicino a loro, tra loro, un germe di male, che poteva, per mezzi naturali, propagarsi e fare una strage; non potendo ormai negare il propagamento di esso, e non volendo attribuirlo a que' mezzi (che sarebbe stato confessare a un tempo un grand'inganno e una gran colpa), erano tanto più disposti a trovarci qualche altra causa, a menar buona qualunque ne venisse messa in campo.

Parents always forgive you. Like sometimes, you see parents on the news, and their kid just got busted for murdering a 7-11 clerk, and they're like, 'But my Bubba's a good boy. He'd never hurt a fly.' So I'm sure your parents would forgive you for whatever you did.

Unfair. So. Unfair. Someone says something about you, and just because they said it first—because you were trying to be nice and not complain, you're in the position of denying it

He looked right through them, refusing to see them, nursing a little growth of anger the way one caresses the beginnings of a toothache with the tip of the tongue.

This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.

The child can only react by denying the loss and living in the fantasy that the parent will return with love.

There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Görmezden gelinecek suç yoktur!

We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

I am in denial about sport. I refuse to accept that I watch it. I am not the kind of man who watches sport.

All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.