611 Quotes About Denial

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

Love should never mean having to live in fear.

Denial is the escape that never allows us to escape.

I took control back with words, sentences, chapters and scripts. I started with the story’s resolution in mind… and worked backwards from there. I do not know if I lived the next few years and then wrote about what happened, or wrote the next few years; and then made it all happen.

She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to find out why." Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too painful to believe that their parents would do such a thing.

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

Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running ‘from’ something. Fear harnessed compels us to run ‘to’ something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles.

Separation was the thing I'd been dreading the most these past few years, and I'd been in denial that it was a fact of life. Refusing to let go, I'd practically thrown a temper tantrum. What's worse, my attempts to avoid separation had only hastened it. It explained why I'd always been so quick to lash out at those I loved.

Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell.