#denial

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#denial #hallucinogenic #i #i see #see

The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, ‘Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your twinkling stars and infinite wonders and darkness. There’s already enough beauty where you are. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#closure #death #denial #grief #loss

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one. ↗

— Boy George

#aware #ball #big #denial #great

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conservatism #contemporary #denial #ideology #ostensibly

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it? ↗

— Eric Liu

#ask #birth #citizenship #conferred #denial

With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#age #ages #anything #anyway #cares

One picture is worth 1,000 denials. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#denials #picture #picture is worth #worth

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#become #denial #gymnastics #much #numbing

God's delays are not God's denials. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#denials #god

What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self— whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it—believe me, it is still alive and kicking. ↗

— K.P. Yohannan

#self-denial #life