Terry Pratchett Quotes

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

Denial is a powerful force.

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

I get rational when I panic.

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

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

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

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

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

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

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

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

I'm very good at denial.

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 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.

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.

They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.

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

I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Peeta forget he loves me . . . no one can do that.