Personal Denial Quotes

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

I have never been a shooter.

I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.

It is not only our hatred of others that is dangerous but also and above all our hatred of ourselves: particularly that hatred of ourselves which is too deep and too powerful to be consciously faced. For it is this which makes us see our own evil in others and unable to see it in ourselves.

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

The thing that I guess I've never understood is why people persist that I carried a crown on a pillow to Reverend Moon. I never did. I took it to his wife.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

For me to bully anybody, that sounds unbelievable.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.

I am not gay. I never have been gay.

I'm not a racist. I made a terrible, terrible mistake.

It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch.

People say I'm injury-prone but that's definitely not true.

I did not bring Deism into Bavaria.

I think that he [Michael Jackson] did derive an ultimate sense of joy and satisfaction in what others enjoyed from him that was denied to himself. There's no question that the transcendent art that he created was a means, an instrument, a vehicle for others to experience what he didn't.

I think if you drink too much and you're told you drink too much, typically you don't like it. I know I didn't.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

I'm not a comic book guy at all.

I don't think I was ever responsible for anything being canceled.

You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

I'm not a sex symbol.

No, I haven’t given any thought to running for President. But my mother has thought about it.