Quotes About Denial

We want to keep believing in our ideas even when the writing is on the wall.

Right now thousands of missiles are hidden away, literally out of sight, topped with warheads and ready to go, awaiting the right electrical signal. They are a collective death wish, barely suppressed. Every one of them is an accident waiting to happen, a potential act of mass murder. They are out there, waiting, soulless and mechanical, sustained by our denial - and they work.

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

I wanted to walk away in denial, watch the news and believe the cat was faking the whole thing for attention.

Great; I get to be told I am dead all over again. -Stomfur

Are you saying that one of us killed Ashfur?

She'd hidden from the truth of how bad it was because it had seemed so much more painful to deal with the truth.

What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit.

THE MEDIA response to unusual weather is as ritualized and predictable as the stages of grief. First comes denial: "I can't believe there's so much snow." Then anger: "Why can't I drive my car, why are the trains not running?" Then blame: "Why haven't the local authorities sanded the roads, where are the snowplows, and how come the Canadians can deal with this and we can't?

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

No!" Jimmy protested.

Don't you understand? We're fighting an election here and the first rule is you can say anything you like, then deny you said it, then say it again.

Follow a shadow, it still flies you;Seem to fly it, it will pursue:So court a mistress, she denies you;Let her alone, she will court you.

Because you believe, even though you'll deny it, that writing has some kind of magical power. And you're probably crazy enough to make your fiction come true somehow.

And at other times when Kellyanne held out Pobby and Dingan were real I would just sit there saying, "Are not. Are not. Are not," until she got bored of saying, "Are. Are. Are," and went running out screaming with her hands over her ears. And many times I've wanted to kill Pobby and Dingan, I don't mind saying it.

Moreover, Fuld and his team seemed in denial about how badly their bets had gone wrong.

but made clear it would not grant further extensions.

There was absolutely no truth to the rumor,

pleases. And, lastly (I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody), perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity. Indeed, I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people

Transformation is forbidden.

DENIAL Defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality that, if acknowledged, would produce anxiety.

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.