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“Survival through denial. Works every time.”
“...youd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.”
“If you believe everything you feel is an illusion then youre delusional. Your emotion is part you. Youre made with it. Denying it and thinking it is all your mind, is denying your existence.”
“This was progress. This was modernity: you could cover over the past completely. You could bury the old under a relentless surface of new, stretched from corner to corner.”
“Like any good Englishman, he detests emotions and prefers a healthy dose of denial and tea.”
“Asking someone to deny their own inner reality causes further rupture.”
“Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil.”
“Mental and emotional freedom is not the denial of truth its the recognition that truth isn't something we need to run from or be afraid of.”
“Few love to hear the sins they love to act.”
“You shall discuss dreams, not deny!”
“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”
“Can we please drop the whole school starts tomorrow talk? Id like to live in denial for a little while longer.”
“Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.”
“The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial”
“Too long spent denying each other, we no longer hid our want.”
“But I can't force everything into the arrangement I'd like. I can't use denial to make everything simple.”
“A kingdom established on hatred is a function of denial of God”
“I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I couldnt tell the doctor what I had done to cut myselfI didnt have any memory of it. The ER doctor w...”
“Ben Scott couldn't be afraid of the supernatural. He didn't believe in the supernatural. Ben Scott was firmly convinced that he didn't believe in anything,”
“Claire hated to say it, but she knew the answer, in her heart. Because he feels something for me, and he wanted to give me a chance to live. Like him. With him. But I refused.Shane turned and looke...”