#denial

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

— Sara Gruen

#body #denial #life #mind #truth

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

— George R.R. Martin

#honesty #truth #men

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#self-awareness #sun

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#justification #lies #torture #torture

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill. ↗

— Rumi

#depression #healing #pain #recovery #sadness

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. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#bigot #bigotry #bigots #delusion #denial

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. ↗

— Criss Jami

#denial #facing #facing-fear #facing-problems #fear

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 when it does fall. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#intuition

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#hubris #innocense #dreams

...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within. ↗

— Hubert Selby Jr.

#television #dreams