Denial Quotes

The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up.

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

I’ve suppressed my aspirations to forget all rationality and let the moment explain everything, for nothing to be said and everything understood. If only I knew how to let these feelings out.

No one answer is ever the answer.

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

It takes self-discipline and persistence action to achieve the goal.

To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.

If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know.

For many things were shown, Recorded and written down.But what is God to do, When His Word you do renounce?

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves—that you could have magic without monsters.

People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.

A house built on lies has a weak foundation.

Somehow everything I own smells of you, and for the tiniest moment it's all not true

I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey.

...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

If you believe everything you feel is an illusion then you’re delusional. Your emotion is part you. You’re made with it. Denying it and thinking it is all your mind, is denying your existence.

This was progress. This was modernity: you could cover over the past completely. You could bury the old under a relentless surface of new, stretched from corner to corner.

Like any good Englishman, he detests emotions and prefers a healthy dose of denial and tea.

I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.

Asking someone to deny their own inner reality causes further rupture.

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

You shall discuss dreams, not deny!

High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.

The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.

Denial is an essential part of my existence. Without it, I am nothing.

Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.

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.

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped, '” he said. “They say “misdeed, ' “inappropriate touching, ' “mistake.' That's insulting. I'm not a mistake.

Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you.

The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.

How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line, ’ and we showed up with an eraser?

I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.

When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.

Survival through denial. Works every time.

It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist.

Mental and emotional freedom is not the denial of truth — it’s the recognition that truth isn't something we need to run from or be afraid of.

Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell.

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.

A wilderness experience includes a long walk back.

Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.

[denial] is an attempt to bring order to our lives.

Can we please drop the whole ‘school starts tomorrow’ talk? I’d like to live in denial for a little while longer.

Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.

Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.

The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial

Too long spent denying each other, we no longer hid our want.

If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!