Denial Quotes
David W. Earle
Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it and not waste any energy on wanting it to be different.
1338 Jane Austen
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
2958 Oscar Wilde
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
2693 Sara Gruen
Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
3453 Gretchen Rubin
Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.
3528 A.J. Darkholme
Love is one of the most motivating and self-defining forces in our lives, whether we turn from it or allow ourselves to be drawn to it. If you allow romantic possibilities with others to consume all your time and energy, they will distract you from the things of interest that fill your life with passion and purpose.
2213 Melchor Lim
When someone hurts you time and time again, accept the fact that they don't care about you. Its a tough pill to swallow, but its necessary medicine.
2704 Sandra L. Schneider
The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation.
1371 Stefan Molyneux
Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.
3695 Emily Thorne
They say grief occurs in five stages. First there's denial followed by anger. Then comes bargaining, depression and acceptance. But grief is a merciless master. Just when you think you're free you realize you never stood a chance.
1363 Rabih Alameddine
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
4066 Judith Lewis Herman
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
1856 Craig D. Lounsbrough
Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.
1482 Aysha Taryam
We have reached the age of denial, we have become happiness seekers, afraid to feel. We are told to think positive, to seek only joy. Stores overflow with books selling you ways to rid yourself of ‘negative’ feelings.
3459 Kim Holden
Denial can be beautiful
But only when you're a fantastic liar
4218 Dave Matthes
I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.
1994 Marty Rubin
We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud.
4872 Craig D. Lounsbrough
Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.
4635 Craig D. Lounsbrough
When will I realize that without God my world is draped in shadows between which there is not a single ray of light? And when will I recognize that with God, my world is deluged in light between which there is not a single thread of darkness?
4240 Jeanne McElvaney
There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it's continued effects on us won't "just go away". That's our breakthrough moment. It's the sun coming out to warm the seeds of hope so they can grow our personal garden of empowerment ~ Jeanne McElvaney
3650 Dave Matthes
...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.
4378 Tobsha Learner
A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.
2649 Christopher Hawke
I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of people’s minds, all of the bits of life that lay dormant until the babblings of televisions and nursing homes sweep them away. It makes me wonder how many of the dreams we had originally have already been forgotten.
3490 Dark Jar Tin Zoo
To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
4592 Who Knows
Ignorance is bliss. Denial is the reaction to a painful truth.
2120 Chris Dietzel
Time is denial's mortal enemy and is always victorious against it.
1929 Nell Freudenberger
... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.
2627 Solange Nicole
There's nothing we fear more than our own Reflection. We scream at the monsters within us, hidden deep within our hearts. We run and hide from the terrors all around us- the different mirrors that we see.
2223 Brooke Hauser
It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist.
2163 Sara Sheridan
The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.
4778 Geoffrey Wood
Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.
3782 Charles Bukowski
It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.
1759 Fuyumi Ono
She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity.
2246 Douglas Adams
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
1366 Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality.
The second stage of ignorance is delusion, or the refusal to acknowledge reality.
The third stage of ignorance is the rejection of altruism.
2938 Taite Adams
...the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.
3004 Marcia Sirota
On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.
4037 Jennifer Hillman
what you know
and don’t deny that
you don’t know
and knowing this
you know
what and why
you don’t know.
Right?
3230 Emily Andrews
I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.
2011 Alice Miller
Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.
4895 Susan Griffin
The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.
3651 Pete Townshend
All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.
3884 Sol Luckman
He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew that “spirit,” however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable experiences - which, though he might suppress them, he couldn’t altogether erase from memory.
3506 Kelli Maine
I can't stop shaking. I need you. I want you. I can't let myself have you.
4197 Rumi
If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.
1928 Jim Butcher
The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.
3893 Fernando A. Torres
Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.
4195 Kathryn Lasky
I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan - no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.
1134 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.
1035 Gabor Maté
The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.
3510 Jacob Nordby
Too many people confuse real magic with magical thinking. Real magic isn't a trick and it transforms our lives. Magical thinking is denial.
Real magic is what happens when we break old belief patterns and have the courage to employ the native laws of the Universe
4376 Evinda Lepins
Joy is not a denial of painful circumstances, but a certainty that He is at work while we are in them. EL
2606 Frederick Douglass
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
4585 Aysha Taryam
Societies have a peculiar way of relating, or more accurately non-relating, to rape maybe because it is so vicious, they choose to live in denial about it.
4553 Stefan Molyneux
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
1329 Benjamin James Sadock
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.
2522 Brian Luke Seaward
The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").
1499 Stefan Molyneux
The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the past and rise like a phoenix, free of all history, is generally a tipping point into insanity, akin to believing that we can escape the endless constraints of gravity, and fly off a tall building. “I’m freeeee… SPLAT!”.
4535 Casey Renee Kiser
My pillow is as good as any ocean
to drown in the nightmare of myself.
I swam all the way here from the moon.
4075 Kat Lowe
Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression?
2472 Sylvia Plath
I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play.
2772 Alexis Hall
I'd wasted so much of my life. So many of my days, and all of my promise, all of my dreams, lost to hospitals, to depression, to wanting to die. This wasn't how it was supposed to be. This is not who I am.
Except, of course, it was. It was all there was left to be.
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