611 Quotes About Denial

Keep it together. Block it out. It’s a mistake. It has to be! Don’t be sad yet. Being sad is such a waste. Being mad, too. It makes everyone’s face red and puffy and nobody looks good with a red puffy face.

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do without gratification for himself provided there is something great, something into which his being, and all beings can go. He does not need meaning as long as such intensity has scope. Because then it is self-evident; it is meaning.

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?

And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go shopping with and watch films with, the kind you go on holiday with and rescue when her car breaks down on the A1. Shortly after my diagnosis, I told her I had DID. I haven't seen her since. The stench and rankness of a socially unacceptable mental health disorder seems to have driven her away.

That's fair," I said, though my feelings were already hurt.

But the biggest problem with being fed lies about how great we are is that people won't be prepared for how evil this government has already been and therefore can be again.

To claim that every staircase goes up means that we’re probably living out our lives in the basement of denial.

A denial heralded the thrice crowing of a cock, and an insincerity was like the kiss of Judas.

The standard rebuke to anyone who claims to be happy is either that they're selfish or living in denial.