Andrew Cuomo Quotes

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

Denial is a very powerful thing.

I'm very good at denial.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you.

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

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

Denial is an ugly thing.

I actually believe in denial.

Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

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.

I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

What state do you live in? Denial.

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

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.