611 Quotes About Denial

It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it.

Denial is the worst form of self-indulgence. A warrior sees his faults as being his passage to power.

How often is my tidy and well-appointed world nothing but the thin veneer of an imagination that I’ve chosen to use in the service of denial, rather than a gift I’ve chosen to exercise out of a passion for change?

The thing didn’t happen. It wasn’t real. But the feeling is…

Destroying your mirrors hides your ugliness or facial blemishes from only you.

Refusal to accept the truth is denial of divine self.

I want you to be serious. I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.

The imaginary fortress in your head you seek refuge in; never has, & never will protect your physical being from harm.

If I have relegated God to a fantasy born of frightened men ill-suited to face life, I would suggest that this is far more the story of frightened men who wish God to be a fantasy because they are ill-suited to face Him.