Human Denial Quotes

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

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

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4

I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love.

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.