#denial

I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are inadvertently helping people live not as much in hope as in denial. ↗

— Mark Galli

#church #denial #praise-and-worship #death

Sara noticed my hesitation and grabbed my hand to drag me down the stairs. 'Bye.' I waved before I disappeared. 'You are so full of shit,' Sara accused when we pulled out of the driveway. My jaw dropped. 'If there was any more sexual tension in that room...' 'What?' I interrupted with a laugh. 'You are definitely seeing things that aren't there. ↗

— Rebecca Donovan

#love

If your eyes can not cry, then your gut will." The head and heart may be in denial of your human needs, but the gut will always carry the wisdom of your needs met and unmet, and thusly respond. ↗

— Martha Char Love

#denial #eyes #gut #gut-feelings #human-needs

I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be. ↗

— Roland Merullo

#denial #love #mediocrity #settling #tragedy

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

— Christopher Lasch

#conservatism #contemporary #denial #ideology #ostensibly

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#denial #denies #developed #form #highly

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#accept #denial #i #just #reality

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#denial #either #necessarily #silence #though

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#courage #denial #face #feed #lot

We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#amateur #been #coming #country #denials