Bill Shorten Quotes

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

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

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.

Denial is a very powerful thing.

Denial is a powerful force.

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.

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.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

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

We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.

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

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

In the denial of that disorder there is order.

Denial is an ugly thing.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be.

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

What state do you live in? Denial.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.