Marlo Thomas Quotes

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.

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

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.

Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

Some people choose not to believe the truth because it disagrees with what they fundamentally want.

Though I had an idea of what was going on - I purposely didn't see it.

Society is much like the ostrich with its head in the sand. It will not look at facts and face the responsibility of its own stupidity.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

I'm very good at denial.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

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

What state do you live in? Denial.

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.

I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

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

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

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