Georges Rouault Quotes

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

Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

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.

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

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'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.

Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

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

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

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s amazing the sorts of things you’ll make yourself believe.

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

Most people like to live in illusions.

You can see desperation in people who are too eager to laugh because they're in such a hurry not to look at what's confronting them in their lives and that's kind of sad because there's a kind of pornographic aspect to it, of making some sort of pain go away, of hovering around a pain, making yourself numb, not feel anything.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

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

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

I can intellectualize myself out of anything.

Denial is a very powerful thing.