Jackson Pollock Quotes

Denial is a powerful force.

I'm very good at denial.

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

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happen

What you try to bury just ends up burying you.

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

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

Denial is an ugly thing.

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.

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

But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing and tried to think nothing.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.

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

What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.

You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it

In the denial of that disorder there is order.