Radclyffe Hall Quotes

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.

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.

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.

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

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.

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

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

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

Some people would believe anything, especially if it eliminates awkward social and political problems.

The real danger is a politics that buries its head in the sand.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.