611 Quotes About Denial

DENIALDefense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality that, if acknowledged, would produce anxiety.

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

God doesn't ordain stupidity.

A person lives a false life whenever they are afraid to make contact with his or her authentic self. A sensitive ego – one that protects a person from pain – can also prevent a person from maturing mentally and emotionally by causing a person to distort truths and refuse to admit unpleasant facts.

There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slut for life. The cynic in me would call it a bad habit, but that’d make me a whore in denial and if there’s one thing I am, it’s an honest bitch. Then again, you don’t get famous for being daddy’s little angel, but you can easily fall into the Infamy Bracket by preaching a made-up Bible quote now and again. They say I’m shallow, but I’ve made a living out off diving off the deep end.

Someone in me, wants to cry out loud the unexpressed pain I have been denying for years.

The four stages of mental illness: 1. Awareness. 2. Denial 3. Acceptance. 4. Adaptation.

It’s okay to feel that hollowness within you.And it’s okay to be in denial. They are all stages of grief.

Denial that we’re living for some kind of ‘god’ is likely the best evidence we have that we’re dying because of some kind of ‘god’.