611 Quotes About Denial

How soon we cover up the horror of death and loss, if we can, with almost any sort of explanation, as if we had to justify the very fate which had maimed us.

Yolanda Gampel utilizes an expanded concept of the "uncanny" to outline the results of violence: Those who experience such traumas are faced with an unbelievable and unreal reality that is incompatible with anything they knew previously. As a result, they can no longer fully believe what they see with their own eyes; they have difficulty distinguishing between the unreal reality they have survived and the fears that spring from their own imagination.

It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.

I can't stop shaking. I need you. I want you. I can't let myself have you.

And we may know the answer deep inside,But we may not want to know it

And we may know the answer deep inside, but we may not want to know it

That we imagine we cannot feel the warsis an American feeling. That we cannot see them, that we say they are somewhere else.But someone pays the police. We do.

Denial couldn't be maintained.

Denial is like an old blanket. I loved to get on under that thing and curl up and sleep.