Quotes About Denial

We only see what we want to see.

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!

There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around.

I read one of the funniest books last week by Don DeLillo. He wrote this book, 'Amazons' many years ago, under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell. The book is very funny but I also think it's funny that he denies any involvement with it.

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin.

Sadly, I'm one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end.

I wasn't looking for my flaws when I was winning. Like, I couldn't see them, I didn't want to see them.

You always have some trans girl saying, 'Oh, they were just being funny! They aren't really transphobic,' Just like you will always have some black folks defending some white person for using the 'N' word because they are 'cool.'

The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

Most of the Republican Party denies climate change and has fought all efforts to address it.

I don't think that France is responsible for the Vel d'Hiv.

At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'

In the case of 'Chernobyl,' we're telling a story of a government that runs on lies the way cars run on fuel, and there are people who ultimately end up paying the price for those lies - and a certain culture of denial is in place, and the degradation of expertise is in place.

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

Non, monsieur. Je n'ai pas le canif de mon oncle.' That

A cult!' Elizabeth gasped. 'Here? In Sweet Valley? But that's impossible!

You just don't want to face up to what kind of person Jessica is.

We were all created incomplete and will find no rest until we satisfy the deepest hunger and thirst within us. You've tried to satisfy it in your own way. I see that in your eyes, too, as I've seen it in so many others. And yet, though you deny it with your last breath, your soul yearns for God

si Dios solamente fuera justo, todos pereceríamos; hasta el último ser humano sobre la faz de la tierra. ¿No lo ves? ¿Nunca has matado en tu corazón? Yo lo negué cuando me dio oportunidades de proclamarlo ante otros y dejé que mi miedo prevaleciera. Gracias a Dios porque Él es misericordioso.

Though you deny me, I love you with an everlasting love.

SIN IS THE MONSTER we love to deny. It can stalk us, bite a slice out of our lives, return again and bite again, and even as we bleed and hobble, we prefer to believe nothing has happened. That makes sin the perfect monster, a man-eater that blinds and numbs its victims, convincing them that nothing is wrong and there is no need to flee, and then consumes them at its leisure.