Quotes About Denial

But he was her best friend. This admission, held at bay for so long, caused an almost painful twist in Robin's heart, not least because she knew it would be impossible ever to tell Strike so.

As long as you don't have to see it, all good, eh?

Her insistence on the smooth passing of counterfeit social coin from hand to hand, while uncomfortable truths were ignored and denied, wore him out.

The thing he'd been trying for years not to look at, and not to name, had stepped out of the dark corner where he'd attempted to keep it, and Strike knew there was no longer any way of denying its existence.

Man's ability to indulge in self-deception knows no bounds.

The American design of a constitutional Republic is such a "complete and self-supporting scheme." The heresy that dislocates it is the introduction of the denial that judges are bound by law.

I have described to you why God must exist—or, at least, must have at one time existed—in mathematical terms that come as close to certainty as anything in science possibly could. And still you deny his existence." The pain was growing worse. It would subside, of course. "Yes," I said. "I deny God's existence.

After a short flurry of national and international concern over the "death of the Sun," the human race settled down to solving the insoluble problem in the best way that they knew - they ignored it and hoped it would go away.

I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The tenor of almost all apologetics literature makes it plain that this is their intent.

Men have this climacteric, you know, like women. Doctors deny it, but I have met some very menopausal persons in their profession.

identificar o comprender un problema no lo elimina automáticamente. No se lo puede detener ni evitar sólo porque por fin haya sido reconocido como conflicto. Aunque ese reconocimiento sea lo que hace posible su tratamiento, la cantidad de personas que siguen desarrollando adicciones de todo tipo va en aumento.

Todos necesitamos negar lo que nos resulta demasiado doloroso o amenazador para aceptarlo. La negación es un medio natural de autoprotección, que obra en forma automática y espontánea.

So often in our society, we are encouraged to disregard our fears and to simply "think positive thoughts". This is nothing more than engaging in denial which is not only ineffective, it is unhealthy.

Victim fall in love with excuses

Chris loved you, I said, and the truth of it was almost a physical pain. She wouldn't look at me. No he didn't. And he would have figured it out eventually. So would you? Then where would I have been? Not here.

That if I pretended hard enough nothing was waiting to claim me, nothing ever would.

Since I was dead — or worse than dead, buried alive in a body that might as well be a coffin except it denied me the pleasure of suffocation — I figured I should be allowed to grieve.

I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, 'no.

Russians like the rest of us prefer to believe that their history has progressed in a straight and positive line. They explain away troubling events such as brutal reigns of Ivan the Terrible or Stalin as necessary stages on the path to greatness.

Pierpont always denied his yacht was chosen for the sake of secrecy. "I do not know that that was a part of the consideration

Admit nothing, even on your deathbed. You might suddenly get better.

That's the problem with denial. Reality doesn't care what you think. It just keeps rolling along.

Was it you with Merchenko?" "Admit nothing, even on your deathbed. You might suddenly get better.

But the ruinous thing about growing up is that we stop creating mysteries where none exist, and worse, we usually try to deconstruct and deny the genuine mysteries that remain. We argue against God, against true romance, against loyalty and self-sacrifice.