611 Quotes About Denial

Humankind may not be able to bear very much reality, but they're geniuses at denying it.

Surrendering to reality requires the highest degree of humility.

The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.

No one answer is ever the answer.

The scariest truth is the one suspected as reality but hidden behind a mask of denial; because once the mask falls away, there's nowhere else to hide it. You have to make a choice: face it head on and accept it, or be destroyed by it.

Humankind may not be very good at bearing reality, but they're absolute geniuses at denying it.

The will not to believe. It is simple human nature. When the mind cannot grasp or face up to a horrible fact it turns away, as though refusing credence will conjure away the reality.

There are a lot of things we all know that don't want to face. I hope you already know that. It will save you a lot of grief if you are aware and expect to discover it about yourself.

And instead we go to Walmart and buy another piece of shit.