Robert Bringhurst Quotes

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

What state do you live in? Denial.

We make fun of those we're most scared of becoming.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone.

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

How do you deal with it?" Kami asked Jared. "The laughing at nothing and occasionally stopping dead in your tracks." "I have a system where when I stop, I lean casually against something," Jared told her. "It makes people think I'm a bad boy. Or possibly that I have a bad back.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

Sometimes I'll be telling my husband, 'I think I'm cracking up'. Sometimes you just need a minute to say, 'I think I'm cracking' and just acknowledge it.

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling the void, because that was easier than letting go.

I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling.

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

I actually believe in denial.

I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield