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...

Denial can be a most useful, temporary shield. Unfortunately, such flimsy armor will not last a lifetime. It is best to face your past, and do so quickly, before your past returns to face you.”—...

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as...

Raffe arches his brow at me. ‘You should be with a nice human boy. One who takes your orders and puts up with your demands. Someone who dedicates his life to keeping you safe and...

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

A house built on lies has a weak foundation.

How can it be that Jane is with me, and says she loves me? Will she not depart as suddenly as she came? To-morrow, I fear I shall find her no more.

And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse...

In 2011, actor Johnny Depp told the November issue of Vanity Fair that he felt participating in a photoshoot was akin to rape.”Well, you just feel like you’re being raped somehow. Raped . . ....

Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but claims he must teach her about the horrors of the world in order to make...

On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted;...

A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.

Somehow everything I own smells of you, and for the tiniest moment it’s all not true

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.

Your body is a temple, not a daily dumping ground for another person’s pain, anger, betrayal, judgment, hypocrisy, denial, games, jealousy or blame. When you are being psychologically, spiritually or emotionally abused by a person,...

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden’s hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by...

I had this dream, see, where I saw the whole world melt. I was standing on La Cienega and from there I could see the whole world and it was melting and it was just...

They need people to believe what has happened to them, to listen to them. There’s almost a denial that this horrible devastation has happened to these people. It’s important for the rest of us to...

…you’re either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.

The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial

When someone hurts you time and time again, accept the fact that they don’t care about you. Its a tough pill to swallow, but its necessary medicine.

There is unmistakable proof that abusers do get together in order to share children, abuse more children, and even learn from each other. As more cases have come into the public eye in recent years,...

The responses range from absolute denial to complete admittance, … Some said, ‘We had no knowledge of it’ – that’s a pretty standard response – and some said, ‘If we paid it, we don’t know...

The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation.

You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of...

We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of...

She had locked something away,something deep inside.A truth that she had once known,but chose to forget.And she couldn’t break free.So I decided to search for it.I went deep into the recess of her mindand found...

As the incidence and fear of rape on college campuses have increased, the term rape has been generalized to mean ‘misuse; diminish the effects of; steal; defeat’: “I just went to the mall and raped...

She couldn’t live in denial of her own humanity.

If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d’s; delay, denial and disappointment

Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the...

Denial can be beautifulBut only when you’re a fantastic liar

The macabre who lived through the war have a story they loved to tell about the soldiers of the Foreign Legion giving a ball in the expanses around Verdun and dancing with the corpses. Alabama’s...

…the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.

I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually, circumstances cause people to act a certain way. It’s from those circumstances that a person’s attitude is...

It’s hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don’t exist.

At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.

The truth has become an insult.

If the social stress is physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, the way to treat the depression is to stop the abuse. Unfortunately, advocates of the biochemical treatment of depression have gone along with the view...

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

They saw me. Milton’s smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in Grease...

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

spirit,” however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable experiences—which, though he might suppress them, he couldn’t altogether erase from memory.

Ruthie started to cry at Julia’s use of the word “hate,” though Ruthie knew it was true, accurate. For a long time now it had been easier just to hate her sister. Easier to try...

Before we drained out one another’s forceWith lies, self-denial, unspoken regretAnd the sick eyes that blame; before the divorceAnd the treachery.

I can’t get myself to say what happened next. I cannot cope with even thinking about this let alone living with it.””It is so degrading and I try to forget, it hurts so much because...

Time is denial’s mortal enemy and is always victorious against it.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you’re self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one...