Denial Quotes

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Judith Lewis Herman

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.

Richard Bach

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

Kelli Maine

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.?

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

Sara Gruen

How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.

Jennifer Salaiz

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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?

Criss Jami

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Jane Austen

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

Christopher Hitchens

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Ernest Hemingway