Quotes About Denial

I said nothing of the sort.

I did not steal your paltry goods!

What keeps the drinker drinking is the certainty that she can stop whenever she wants. It never would have occurred to me that stopping the pathetic little bit of drinking I did would have mattered.

Is it possible to love something so much, you imagine it wants to destroy you only because it has denied you?

missing the most obvious fact of all that what I hoped to lock out I've only locked in here with me.

Unfortunately, denial also means ignoring the possibility of peril.

All this time I'd believed the cavorting and drinking and sex had done away with that terrible onslaught of fear. Clearly I was wrong. I'd only pushed it off into another place.

Returning and being let in: Two very different things.

Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.

You are going to die. I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations.

You are going to die. I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.

It's a common slander of the Jews, but it's no slander of a huge fraction of the Germans. They went like sheep to the slaughterhouse. And then they donned the rubber aprons and set to work.

Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a full-time job looking the other way.

That left denial. If he pretended that he didn't have it, he could ignore the ways it was affecting his life. Denial sounded good.

When Hogg asked Churchill directly: 'Is there a shadow of truth in any of the accusations made against you,' Churchill replied: 'Not the slightest. From beginning to end it is a monstrous and malicious invention.' Douglas

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly pay homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.

A right delayed is a right denied.

What planet are you living on? Who are you trying to convince - me or yourself.

If they cannot deny it, they will probably ignore it.

Yet when the denial becomes so complete that we live under what amounts to a tyranny of not seeing and not speaking the existential truth, it becomes dangerous itself. This is what makes the closest and deepest experiences of catastrophe, loss, and failure so

What ideology, I wondered, was not based on a principled denial of the facts?