Quotes About Denial

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—'t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.

Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.

not thinking about something you don't want to know about doesn't make it go away.

But not thinking about something you don't want to know about doesn't make it go away. You

Ignored reality manifests itself in an abyss of confusion and suffering.

A cegueira voluntária é a recusa em saber algo que pode ser conhecido. É a recusa em admitir que aquele som é alguém a bater à porta. É a recusa em ver o enorme gorila na sala, o elefante debaixo do tapete, o esqueleto no armário. É a recusa em admitir erros enquanto seguimos com o plano.

One of the major contributions of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, The Gulag Archipelago, was his analysis of the direct causal relationship between the pathology of the Soviet prison-work-camp dependent state (where millions suffered and died) and the almost universal proclivity of the Soviet citizen to falsify his own day-to-day personal experience, deny his own state-induced suffering, and thereby prop up the dictates of the rational, ideology-possessed communist system.

To say it again: it is the greatest temptation of the rational faculty to glorify its own capacity and its own productions and to claim that in the face of its theories nothing transcendent or outside its domain need exist. This means that all important facts have been discovered. This means that nothing important remains unknown. But most importantly, it means denial of the necessity for courageous individual confrontation with Being.

Willful blindness is the refusal to know something that could be known.

You shot heroin in the bathroom while I was disinfecting the kitchen. Didn't you?" "Of course not." He pulled on his gloves and led the way into the building. "I hatched from a pod and hid the real Jonathan under the floorboards." "You're much less creepy when you're pensive and focused. Just so you know.

It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".

Eu estava nas profundas, preso, de mãos e pés atados, me deu trabalho demais me desamarrar para vir te ver, meu bem. Mas tu me chamou, e eu vim, atravessando o fogo e o frio, o nada e o não. Chego e tu me nega o pão, a água de beber, por quê? — Ai, Vadinho…

He did not believe, and yet he admitted the supernatural. Right here on earth how could any of us deny that we are hemmed in by mystery, in our homes, in the street,—everywhere when we came to think of it?

Actually all women are psychic. When a man cheats on a woman and lies to her, she already knows; she just lies to herself.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

the Blood and the Blood from the Body. In what other way, in fact, would it be possible to represent the bloody Sacrifice through the Consecration? Hence our oppo nents defeat themselves with their own weapons when they deny that the separation of the Blood from the Body is a result of the words of Consecration.

What, us?" Squirrelflight's eyes opened wide and her tail curled up. "Never!

So?" Alderheart refused to understand.

Minha vida não era tão ruim. Pelo menos era isso o que dizia a mim mesmo o tempo todo, numa tentativa inútil de afastar a enorme solidão que sentia.

That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment.