Jane Fonda Quotes

Obviously I wasn't playing well at the time. But as a player, you lie to yourself. You say, "There's nothing wrong. I'm just not on time [at the plate]." You make something else up because pain is not an option.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

What state do you live in? Denial.

I actually believe in denial.

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

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

Denial is a powerful force.

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

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed.

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

I'll see something awful on the street and I'll come home and say to my boyfriend, "I just saw the funniest thing on the street." It's a stance. It's the way I was born, or the way I was damaged.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.

His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

In the denial of that disorder there is order.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

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.

Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them. I am all anger and resentment all the time. Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it.