Kiefer Sutherland Quotes

Denial is a very powerful thing.

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

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

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

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

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

I think people, whether they realize they're doing it or not, seek out distractions to take their minds off what they know is bad behavior.

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.

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.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out.

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it.

Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

I mean, she's giving and caring and genuinely concerned about the welfare of others. I can't be with someone like that.

Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.

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.

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.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

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.