Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

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

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

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.

Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.

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'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

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

When all else fails there's always delusion.

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.

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

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

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.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

I actually believe in denial.

It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.

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.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

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

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

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