Denial Quotes

"You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel." "It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one’s own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one’s own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice." "I am not responsible for the financial crisis, I hate to tell you" "Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable" "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls" "You can pretend you don't miss me" "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored" "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." "It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept" "There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep." "In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant" "Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it" "The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see" "We lie best when we lie to ourselves"