Terence Winter Quotes

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

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

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

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

When all else fails there's always delusion.

Denial is huge for any alcoholic, especially for a functioning alcoholic, because I - you know, I'm not living under a bridge. I haven't been arrested.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

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

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

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.

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

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.

The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

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

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.