Denial Quotes

Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.

Logic can't explain the salmon swimming upstream. So it denies the existence of salmon.

Life is meant for the living but fit for the dead.

...the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.

Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.

you cannot replace negative beliefs with positive ones you can't believe- positive ones that are too ambitious. you must find and choose a thought that allows you to feel relief.

Joy is not a denial of painful circumstances, but a certainty that He is at work while we are in them. EL

The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.

You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!

Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are from any form of terrorism.

Today's society is wanting in such a way that Honor, Integrity, Trust, Compassion, Empathy are left for the homeless and their pets.

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable

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").

I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.

Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression?

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.

My pillow is as good as any oceanto drown in the nightmare of myself.I swam all the way here from the moon.

You deny the existence of magic. It's tragic. Aren't you a child born from the ashes of stars? Born from light to decide a life?

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.

We can hide a lot of stuff until God shows up, for when God shows up nothing is hidden, which includes both our embarrassment and His forgiveness.

There's a fine line between forgiveness and denial.

He may take long walksin the raining darkalmost aimlesslyto a spot of soaked grassin a neighbor’s open field.He’s decided this is the placefor you and him to meet again.

HE didn't realize she was his everything until he gave her up for everything else.

I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.

In a matter of moments, I awakened to a life that wasn’t mine. It was like peering into a dark hidden world that I wasn’t supposed to know about and that my mind didn’t want to believe existed.

I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.

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.

I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not?

If I worship the fact that I don’t worship anything, amongst other things what I’m worshipping is denial.

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.

We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.

I was trying to keep God's pain at arms length.

It is the fool who declares ‘I am ascending the summit, ’ while he’s toddling around in the ditch.

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

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.

pain is like the cold. do not give it your attention. but unlike the cold do not deny being in pain

What a brilliant cover story. In a success-obsessed society like this one, what's the best rock to hide something under? It's the rock called failure.

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.

what you knowand don’t deny thatyou don’t knowand knowing thisyou knowwhat and whyyou don’t know.Right?

The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.

The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.

Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil.

Being comfortable with the lies can be catastrophic.

people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection

...victims of violent crime are not always believed...[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]