180 quotes found
“I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.”
“In very rare cases, people will be self-satisfied and content within themselves. More often than not the very same people who choose to live alone are simply in denial after a painful experience or...”
“Kicking the can down the road implies that were accepted the galling reality that whatever it is that weve avoiding, its something thats not going to go away; at least on its own.”
“Vanishing cream for the mind, English writer Jeremiah Creedon calls it.It's beholding the mote in your brother's eye, says the Bible, while disregarding the beam in your own.Denial is refusing to l...”
“We've been working out of our tin can for half a decade. Nobody suggests moving into a brick-and-mortar office; nobody wants to peer through glass windows, in a building with a foundation, and admi...”
“It is not what you dont know that hurts you; it is what you do know, which is not the truth that does your spirit the most harm.”
“It was clear that the house was run on a certain system, of either great pomposity or great denial - it was too early for her to make up her mind about which one it was.”
“Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear so don't look and they'll stay farther away than you expect they would.”
“He hadn't "abused" alcohol, but had spent almost four years sitting in a chair drinking jug wine around the clock and looking, variously, at the wall, the window blind, and the TV screen.”
“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 so strong and realistic like. And...”
“Denial is not just a river in Egypt.”
“Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of cours...”
“Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.”
“I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it!”
“You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree life, until one day you're finally cornered by a truth that can no longer be ignored.”
“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 co...”
“Apparently, denial isn't just a river in Egypt.”
“Yet, Step 2 and AA spirituality is about nothing if it isnt about faith in God. Many good reasons exist why AA makes a distinction between religion and spirituality, but a denial of God is not one ...”
“YOU CAN RUN, BUT CAN NOT HIDE"The statement, 'after giving it much thought', hardly becomes credible when one spends less that 24 hours in that endeavor. In fact, it is really giving something very...”
“Denial exists when three beliefs intersect:1. It cannot happen. 2. It cannot happen to you.3. It cannot happen to you now.”
