Quotes About Denial

A person who is party to the crime/injustice turns blind eye to the truth/ground situation and even asks networking people not to send any SMS/whatsapp message related to that awakening subject

It was like a murder trial in which the district attorney, asked who has been killed, says he doesn't know; and asked about the corpse, says there is no corpse. Imagine killing a figment of someone's imagination.

If life is not a continual denial of the past, then it is nothing.

On the airplane, Sly and I were smoking stogies and constantly trading jokes. We never talked about the feud. We were typical guys, totally in denial, as if there had never been any problem and nothing had ever happened.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

I spent a lot of time denying the idea that I could be gay or trans to myself. From the ages of 14 to 16, I was mostly convinced that I was just going through 'phases.' I ran away mentally, especially at night with access to the Internet and the labyrinth of anonymous communications.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

John Travolta is getting old, despite what his hair is trying to tell us.

We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do.

All racism is wrong, and denying that it exists does not make it go away.

I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing.

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

So long as the priest, that denier, calumniator and poisoner of life by profession, still counts as a higher kind of human being, there can be no answer to the question: what is truth? One has already stood truth on its head when the conscious advocate of denial and nothingness counts as the representative of 'truth

Everything that can be denied, deserves to be denied; and real sincerity means the belief in a state of things which cannot be denied, or in which there is no lie. The sincere man feels that his activity has a metaphysical meaning. It can only be explained by the laws of a different and a higher life; it is in the deepest sense an affirmation: even if everything that he does seem utterly opposed to the laws of our present life.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

Wherever life and knowledge seemed to contradict each other, there was never any serious struggle: in such cases, denial and doubt amounted to madness.

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that being is merely a continual has been, a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.