Quotes About Denial

Psychologists Michael Scheier and Charles Carver found a correlation between optimism and recovery from coronary artery bypass surgery.15 Others have studied how attitudes affect recovery and found that this improvement is not a function of a patient's tendency to deny that he was ill.

When are you going to admit that you are avoiding me because you're hot for me?" "When hell freezes over." Trevor-Raven

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

Faced with an inconvenient history, the first defense is silence.

the brute will then invite the girl back to his place of dwelling, where he will achieve insertion. He will experience delights so heavenly, so incredible... delights, that have been so cruelly denied to me

I would shut myself away in my room, just like I had as a kid when my parents were fighting, and try and ignore what was happening.

Anybody right here/out there who takes you for granted is disdainful (anyone who denies you your respect/right/justice/love/care/freedom). Yes, he or she is just that period.

Most times, God denies you what you think is good or better for you. Just because, you deserve nothing else but only the best & he does give you the best.

Note: Oftentimes, what you desire in life is never what you actually deserve. Yes! and that is why, God (Almighty) often denies you your mere desires in order to give you eventually what you really deserve (mark you). -Emeasoba George

Se non si ha dentro di sé la passione dell'insolubile, non è possibile immaginare gli eccessi di cui è capace la negazione, l'impietosa lucidità della negazione.

A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

Most people had not lived -- nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died-- through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain.

The most natural feelings are those we are least willing to confess.

Everyone knows that hidden pull is there, but we go on living our lives, pretending we don't. We keep our gazes fixed, day after day, on the things we want to see.

I laughed. "Could it be that you're satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?" "No way, no way, no way!" he said, laughing. "It must be because we're family.

When we don't have something in our lives, we tell ourselves that we don't need it, that we don't want it—because the alternative is aching for it, which breeds a sense of loss. So, we remove it from the picture we make of our lives. What we don't see, we don't miss.

Memory is life experience. When we deny it, there's a hole where it should

When we don't have something in our lives, we tell ourselves that we don't need it, that we don't want it—because the alternative is aching for it, which breeds a sense of loss. So, we remove it from the picture we make of our lives. What we don't see, we don't miss. Then, as Paul said, something happens

he didn't look as much like a user as a man who had lost someone near and dear. She let it go. Wasn't that the lesson of the week? Anger accomplished nothing. Denial was a crutch.

The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work.

My father just didn't want to believe something like that [genocide of the Jews] was possible — it's very understandable. He just couldn't believe the humanistic Germans he knew would do such a thin

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander