Quotes About Denial

When people live in denial of the truth—sometimes large groups of them all together—they lose their . . . I am not sure of the right word. They lose something precious, something good and right and true. Their integrity, perhaps? You forced everyone to confront the truth—even those who did not know it before

I thought I had forgotten . . . But maybe I just pushed it deep and denied it and let it fester.

She would find it very difficult to say an outright no if she did not have a ready-made excuse.

Keegi ei ole nii pime kui see, kes ei taha näha.

from Hum, Hum Oh the house of denial has thick walls and very small windows and whoever lives there, little by little, will turn to stone. In those years I did everything I could do and I did it in the dark— I mean, without understanding. I ran away. I ran away again (from poem: Hum, Hum)

Dissection and surgical instruction, like meat-eating, require a carefully maintained set of illusions and denial. Physicians and anatomy students must learn to think of cadavers as wholly unrelated to the people they once were.

Dissection and surgical instruction, like meat-eating, require a carefully maintained set of illusions and denial.

The Trumpian lie is different. It is the power lie, or the bully lie. It is the lie of the bigger kid who took your hat and is wearing it—while denying that he took it. There is no defense against this lie because the point of the lie is to assert power, to show "I can say what I want when I want to." The power lie conjures a different reality and demands that you choose between your experience and the bully's demands:

I'm not an alcoholic—I don't have the discipline to become one—

I'm not an alcoholic—I don't have the discipline to become one—but

People were freaked out, but they showed it in weird ways. Back home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford people just aggressively pretended nothing had happened.

He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look...the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness.

I'm not going to help you pretend—by arguing with you—that the reality you're talking about is not what it is, that there's still a way to make it work and to save your neck. There isn't.

It was as if a volcano were cracking open, yet the people at the foot of the mountain ignored the sudden fissures, the black fumes, the boiling trickles, and went on believing that their only danger was to acknowledge the reality of these signs.

When thinkers accept those who deny the existence of thinking, as fellow thinkers of a different school of thought—it is they who achieve the destruction of the mind. They grant the enemy's basic premise, thus granting the sanction of reason to formal dementia. A basic premise is an absolute that permits no co-operation with its antithesis and tolerates no tolerance.

This is still faith in their rationality, in the omnipotence of reason. The mistake? Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.)

La suspención de una amenaza no constituye pago; la negación de un elemento negativo no es recompensa; la retirada de sus rufianes armados no constituye incentivo; la oferta de no asesinarme, no representa ningún valor.

It wasn't courage that motivated this casual, impersonal manner of treating so much pain; it was a special brand of cowardice, a destructive defense mechanism, forcing others to listen to the most horrendous experiences and yet denying them the moment of empathy: don't feel sorry for me; nothing is too big for me to handle. This is nothing, nothing really.

It wasn't courage that motivated this casual, impersonal manner of treating so much pain; it was a special brand of cowardice...forcing others to listen to the most horrendous experiences and yet denying them the moment of empathy: don't feel sorry for me....This is nothing, nothing really.

In contrast to his father, George W. Bush and members of his administration actively downplayed evidence of a warming planet and refused to engage in international efforts to curb greenhouse gases, despite the fact that for the first half of his presidency the United States ranked as the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide. As

There was certainly plenty in her own past that she was reluctant to look at. Because looking made it real.

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

He behaves as if he had no dead children. The real Leandro never comes here. He only pretends.

Refusing to look at the evidence, this is also popular.