Quotes About Denial

Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.

This can't happen. Minias said it couldn't happen. I'm not a demon. It shouldn't work for me! I'm not a demon!" "Apparently," Al said, slamming into the bars in time with his words, "you're so damn close, it doesn't matter!

Ivy and I will deal with the uncomfortable situation like we always have…by ignoring it. It was something we were both good at.

When you discover that you are living in a fantasy that cannot endure, a fantasy that will destroy your world, and your children, what do you do? People said things like, Fuck it, or Fuck the future. They said things like, The day is warm, or This meal is excellent, or Let's go to the lake and swim.

So until the climate was actually killing them, people had a tendency to deny it could happen.

It's a life or death thing, society, and I think people mainly do recognize that, and the people who deny it are stupid fuckers, I say this unequivocally. Ignorant fools. That kind of stupidity should be put in jail.

The reason is simple: these things happened. They happened countless times, just like this. The oceans are salt with our tears. No one can deny that these things happened. And so there is no choice in the matter. They cannot escape the wheel of birth and death

Who were these people who could live so placidly while the world fell into an acute global environmental crisis? Experts at denial. Experts at filtering their information. Many of those walking by went to church on Sundays, believed in God, voted Republican, spent their time shopping and watching TV. Obviously nice people. The world was doomed.

Although, she couldn't deny that whenever one of her three best friends, Michelle, Kenya, or Lynette, brought up the subject of marriage, she pretended that marriage couldn't have been further from her mind.

Instead of seeing bad in yourself, you perceive it in others. It's a defense mechanism. One that allows people to go on believing they're perfect.

Ach, woman! He raked his fingers through his hair. You want me as much as I want you. Assuming that's true - It's true. - I can't. Not now. It's no' your time of the month. I know that. Ew. Valkyrie didn't have periods. You're the only one here with a monthly cycle, werewolf. - Lucia and Garreth MacRieve

Would your sisters frown on the fact that you're attracted to me? She faced him once more. I'm not! Lie to yourself, Lousha. No' to me. I was there with you that night, remember? You might be trying no' to recall it, but it's seared into my head. No, actually I want to recall it—I like to remember my mistakes. So I don't repeat them.

People react primarily to direct experience and not to abstractions; it is very rare to find anyone who can become emotionally involved with an abstraction. The longer the bomb is around without anything happening, the better the job that people do in psychologically denying its existence. It has become as abstract as the fact that we are all going to die someday, which we usually do an excellent job of denying.

I did not have a homosexual relationship with a man in Denver.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form.