Todd Rundgren Quotes

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

People deny things that are true all the time.

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else.

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.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

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

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

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

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?

If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them. I am all anger and resentment all the time. Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

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

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Peeta forget he loves me . . . no one can do that.

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.