#denial

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#day #death #denial #die #enough

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#comes #highest #indispensable #kind #religious

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

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

— Bill Watterson

#accept #denial #i #just #reality

If I don't read page ninety, it won't have happened to them. Black Beauty will still live with all his friends at Birtwick Park … The knights will be able to go on having jolly adventures without Lancelot meeting Guinevere and bringing the whole Round Table crashing down into ruin on their heads… ↗

— Barbara Hambly

#beauty

My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive. Politicians have to be progressive; that is, they have to live in the future, because they know they have done nothing but evil in the past. But Artists, who have been right from the beginning of the world, who were, perhaps, the only people who were right even in the beginning of the world, decorating pottery or designing rude frescoes on the rock when other people were fighting or offering human sacrifice, they have no right to despise their own past. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#avowals-and-denials #politics #progress #design

How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail. ↗

— Jennifer Salaiz

#hate #lies #love #sarcasm #truth

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