Rick Yancey Quotes

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

I actually believe in denial.

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

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.

He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.

Who says i can't handle it? I can handle it," said Gregor obviously not handling it.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

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

Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well. I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real. But that's not the way it feels.

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

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

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver. And one thinks them insincere. Yet I want to believe her. At the same time it does not seem so very important that she should love me. It is not her role. I am so filled with my love of her. And at the same time I feel that I am dying. Our love would be death. The embrace of imaginings.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'

It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.