Denial Quotes

She had been expecting me and was ready. She gave a long slow soundless headshake, merciful only in ...

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

I had to feel sorry for Bubba's wife. In AA we called it denial. We take the asp to our breast and s...

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...

She had denied herself the pleasure of openly sharing life with the person she loved.

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a...

And I told him that I believed in God because I had seen His opposite. I had seen all that He was no...

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow o...

It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.

Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries ...

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

I’m still pretty sick about what I’ve lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is pr...

I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me,...

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is...

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not ...

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal s...

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't...

I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the...

I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like...

Though you forget the way to the Temple,There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you ma...

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Like Pascal, Nietzsche, and Simone Weil, Kierkegaard is one of those writers whom it is very difficu...

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning...

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as t...

Now what state do you live in?''Denial.

I had this dream, see, where I saw the whole world melt. I was standing on La Cienega and from there...

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.

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

How can it be that Jane is with me, and says she loves me? Will she not depart as suddenly as she ca...

The truth has become an insult.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicat...

And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted c...

They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) scr...

Denial couldn't be maintained.

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosag...

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...

Those who deny guilt and sin are like the Pharisees of old who thought our Saviour had a “guilt comp...

The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a...

The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular id...

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your car...