Quotes About Denial

What is optimism? Alas, it is the mania for pretending that all is right, when in fact everything is wrong. —Voltaire, Candide

Confronted afterward, she claimed no knowledge of that bedroom tryst; she did not intend to be held responsible for men's dreams.

We're all sticking our heads in the sand here, Kelvin, but at least we're aware of it and we're not trying to act noble.

With the demise of imagination I inherited its residue, a kind of permanent disagreement with reality, more like an anger, though, than a rejection. My laughter had already been a denial, and a more effective kind, perhaps, than suicide.

Hemos llegado aquí tal como somos en realidad y cuando la otra parte, la parte que silenciamos, nos muestra esa verdad ¡no somos capaces de aceptarlo!

L'unico modo per non temere la morte è non pensarla e non crederle. Voltarle le spalle, anche se lei è ovunque, e non puoi voltare le spalle a ciò che è ovunque. Puoi voltare le spalle al deserto? Uno dei misteri della morte è proprio questa nostra follia: tentare di non temerla.

The emptiness of self, for instance, is not the denial of individual uniqueness but the denial of any permanent, partless, and transcendent basis for individuality. The anguish and uncertainty of human existence are only exacerbated by the preconceptual, spasm-like grip in which such assumptions of transcendence hold us.

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

Now I don't know why he's denying them habeas corpus. I can only assume the guys they got detained over there did something really unforgivable. Like remind Obama he was once a professor of Constitutional Law.

the reality of geography could not be wished away.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

I denied Discordia and regret nothing; I have spat into the bodiless eyes of the Crimson King and rejoice; I threw my lot with the gunslinger and the White and never once questioned the choice.

You've presented a reality that not everyone has chosen to accept.

Though you forget the way to the Temple, There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.

Some people behave as though they are having an allergic reaction to feelings.

I keep telling myself that I don't miss you and that I don't love you hoping that someday I will believe it.

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

Because she knew already that this would be the thing that would end them. And that in the deepest part of her, she had known it from the beginning, like someone stubbornly ignoring a weed growing until it blocked out the light.

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.

I'm fine," she said, wondering how you could say something so patently true yet untrue at the same time.

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were wading or drowning.