Quotes About Denial

For once a truth is known it cannot be unknown, it can only be denied.

You learned how if a thing is not spoken of, even those closest to you, who love you, will assume that it doesn't exist.

Della Rae was a pig and she was smashed out of her skull and you didn't want to think about it

God help him. He chortled. He doesn't realize he loves her. And even if he did, he wouldn't admitted it. -Dr. Whitticomb

Can we be just friends?, she asked tentatively. I thought we were friends, he said. You know what I mean. I choose not to know what you mean. How can you choose not to know what you know? she asked sulkily. How can you choose not to talk about what you feel? If I don't talk about it, I don't feel it. Fine. Then let's not talk about just being friends. -- Looking for Mr. Goodbar

You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.

When people do not want to see something, they get mad at the one who shows them.

Most people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying that they made them.

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

Illegitimate self-justification takes place when you know you are guilty and seek to hide the fact. Few sins carry the profound ramifications that self-justification does.

It is too embarrassing to name and own one's deep failings; as long as they are unvoiced, we may be allowed to pretend it is not so.

Grief is an element of aliveness and the answer to the denial the market demands of us. It is an index of our humanity. It is proof of the presence of our relatedness to each other. It is a communal practice that recognizes that choosing the wilderness of vulnerability, mystery, and anxiety was a good and life-affirming choice.

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

We lie to ourselves here. Maybe we are here because we lie to ourselves.

All around her was death and ruin, to which she had not been a participant but an angry witness. In a way, that was worse than dying. Even annihilation had been denied her.

Die Bibliotie ist die größtmögliche Form der Ignoranz gegenüber Büchern. Biblioten lesen nicht nur grundsätzlich keine Bücher, sondern leugnen sogar schlankweg ihre Existenz!

Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

the hardest lies to live with are the ones we tell ourselves. And when we actually start to believe them... well, at that point, there's no hope.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

The tsunami was announced and those who didn't believe it went to the beach to see it.

Her insan?n içsel bir biçimde yaln?z oldu?undan, bu yaln?zl???n kötü bir ?ey olmad???ndan ve bu konuyu konu?mak istemedi?imden, o zaman da susuyorum. Asl?nda bo? laftan ba?ka bir ?ey de?il ama Traudel için bo? laf de?il. Birçok insan?n içsel yaln?zl???n? inatla inkar etti?ini biliyorum. Traudel de bunlardan biri.

People get sick from ''not wanting to see''.

But not to know error is to lie, is to spit up poison through the harrowing margins of weakened mineral campaigns. It is the deeply filtered and the wretched who deny this, who test themselves with exoteric perfection, who turn their branded melodias to simple outward gain. In contrast to the rotation of immensity, to the treble glare of inward cyclical rarity, such outward wit carries less than the power of negation.