Denial quotations

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◆ And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.

- D.H. Lawrence99

◆ I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?

- Criss Jami99

◆ I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

- Floriano Martins99

◆ Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.

- Jessica Stern99

◆ Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.

- Libba Bray99

◆ A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

- Criss Jami99

◆ 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.

- Tobsha Learner99

◆ I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be.

- Roland Merullo99

◆ Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

- C. Northcote Parkinson99

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

- Charles Bukowski99

◆ The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on.

- Georgina Kleege99

◆ I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies - a whole passel of babies, more than I could have - so she understands how it kills me now that she won't let me hug her when she's in obvious distress. (The Life You've Imagined)

- Kristina Riggle99

◆ When you love someone, you give everything without thinking twice, deny the truth, believe in lies, do crazy things that you can't explain and cry over things that hurt you but still stay and say, I'm okay.

- 99

◆ I say I'm over you. I lie to myself, my friends and my family, but every time I see you the feelings come back my heart flutters and I smile and remember everything.

- Dayna Cooper99