Mechanism Quotes
The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.
I lock all my scaredness down in my stomach until the fear hardens into something I hardly notice. I myself harden into a person that I hardly notice.
We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.
Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.
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").
Open your umbrella of creativity when glaring heat of adversity hits you unaware." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You
Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride.
Nature has certain mechanism to record all memories of every life being.
The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.
I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.
What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God?
They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay
By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.