Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear.
The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.
In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.
If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going beyond, they just run away and they try to cover this with power and violence, but it doesn't work.
You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.
He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.
