#denial

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#deceit #deception #denial #deny #funny

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty. ↗

— John Lanchester

#denial #age

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. ↗

— Judith Lewis Herman

#post-traumatic-stress #psychotherapy #taboo #trauma #truth

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. ↗

— Jacques Lipchitz

#against #answer #art #artist #asked

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#good #good breeding #good nature #good sense #little

Delay is the deadliest form of denial. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#delay #denial #form

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial. ↗

— Betty Ford

#denial #forget #i #mastectomy #never

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#eyes #gag #greatness #loosen #our

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. ↗

— Annie Besant

#believe #denial #experience #given #limited

When you are in a hole, stop digging! ↗

— Bill McKibben

#climate-change-denial #climate-crisis #climate-denial #change