611 Quotes About Denial

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

Survival through denial. Works every time.

the next step in the adventure of self-understanding can begin only when we take note of our innate and legitimate need for an environment rich in mental states that are induced through an act of will.

The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.

Being in a state of denial is auniversally human response tosituations which threaten tooverwhelm. People who were abusedas children sometimes carry theirdenial like precious cargo without aport of destination. It enabled us tosurvive our childhood experiences, and often we still live in survival mode decades beyond the actual abuse. We protect ourselves to excess because we learned abruptly and painfully that no one else would.

Employment deprives you of the purpose of existence

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

The worst person to get away from is oneself.

The greatest offender is the one who commits no wrong