People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear so don’t look and they’ll stay farther away than you expect they would.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor...

Ignorance is bliss. Denial is the reaction to a painful truth.

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

Now what state do you live in?”Denial.

Reaction timeTouch the underside of a penny you find on the streetDoesn’t feel any different unless you close your eyesI can taste the copper in my mouth nowseeping from between my teethThere’s an explanation I’m...

The thing about denial is that it doesn’t feel like denial when it’s going on.

Special interests do get more and they do get what they pay for despite the constant denial that lawmakers can’t be bought,

Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under pressure from social workers and therapists, produce false allegations of ‘paedophile rings’, ‘cult...

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Too long spent denying each other, we no longer hid our want.

Never love someone beneath your level of evolution. If you want a monkey, you can visit one at your local zoo.

The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.

alien abduction” experience, an alter had been instructed that if she began to remember the ritual abuse she was to remember the alien abduction, so that nobody would believe her account of the ritual abuse....

Kicking the can down the road implies that we’re accepted the galling reality that whatever it is that we’ve avoiding, it’s something that’s not going to go away; at least on its own.

That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.

That was no Holocaust denial, that was only (a statement) about a part of the (Holocaust) history.

DENIAL OF EMOTIONSOur culture does not handle emotions well. We like folks to be happy and fine. We learn rituals of acting happy and fine at an early age. I can remember many times telling...

We don’t know if it’s because more people and parents are aware and less are in denial or if things have gotten worse. We’re hoping that’s not the case.

Ain’t that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain’t touched the big mysteries — where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something...

Denial returned, like a nagging cough you can never quite shake. Actually, it was always close at hand, and even though “satanic ritual abuse” did describe what had happened to me when I was a...

Yeah, he only loves you for your mind,” Shane said…

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

… an impression of inescapable noise or acute disorder, a rush of adrenalin, sensations of alarm, a sense of unbalance or chaos, residual feeling of nausea and anxiety. These are the forms of bodily distress...

You will never know true happiness until you have faced the true sadness in your life.

Maintain a belief system that admits that all things are possible for those responsible to have them done. It’s nothing to deny; whenever God calls us for a responsibility, he give the ability for us...

widespread use of torture, persecution of minority groups and the denial of freedom of speech, association and religion

Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to...

The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.Atrocities, however, refuse to be...

Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher.

Then why do you keep staring at it like it’s the last piece of food on earth?

I find it disturbing that one anthropologist’s readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians.[Referring to Jean La Fontaine’s 1994 research paper for the DOH]

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others

If you believe everything you feel is an illusion then you’re delusional. Your emotion is part you. You’re made with it. Denying it and thinking it is all your mind, is denying your existence.

The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my...

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.

He wants to come forward and acknowledge what he’s done. We don’t have an excuse. We don’t have a denial. We’re willing to ‘fess up.

We’re all drowning, but don’t say it out loud.

In her book claiming that allegations of ritualistic abuse are mostly confabulations, La Fontaine’s (1998) comparison of social workers to ‘nazis’ shows the depth of feeling evident amongst many sceptics. However, this raises an important...

Denial has rented a room in my head and frequently stomps around slamming doors.

If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly.

Sometimes you can’t figure out the truth because you’re asking people that are emotionally or socially invested in you to be brutally honest. Often family or friends will tell you what you want to hear,...

Denial is commonly found among persons with dissociative disorders. My favorite quotation from such a client is, “We are not multiple, we made it all up.” I have heard this from several different clients. When...

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

There is no point in using the word ‘impossible’ to describe something that has clearly happened.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

Too many people confuse real magic with magical thinking. Real magic isn’t a trick and it transforms our lives. Magical thinking is denial.Real magic is what happens when we break old belief patterns and have...

Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I’ll pretend there’s nothing wrong if you pretend there’s nothing wrong. It’s called denial, and it’s one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all...