Jane Velez-Mitchell Quotes

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

Denial is a powerful force.

I'm very good at denial.

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

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

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

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

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

Victims don't want to know they're victims. I guess that's just victim psychology: if you don't know about it, it's not really happening.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.

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

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

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.

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

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

The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism.

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

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one’s own mind.

I think I'm absolutely perfect. Because if I'm not good at something I completely banish it from my mind. Completely. Like it never happened.