#denial

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

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

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

"There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it's continued effects on us won't "just go away". That's our breakthrough moment. It's the sun coming out to warm the seeds of hope so they can grow our personal garden of empowerment."

"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?"

"It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge."

"The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature."

"Now what state do you live in?''Denial."

"No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others."

"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 the blind mute."

"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."

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

"To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."

"I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality."

"The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in, it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty."

"The truth has become an insult."

"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."

"Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it."

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

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