Refusal to Accept Reality Quotes

What state do you live in? Denial.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over.

Hope is the denial of reality.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Victims don't want to know they're victims. I guess that's just victim psychology: if you don't know about it, it's not really happening.

I don't run around feeling infused with positivity, but I'll have to be taking my last breath before I'll admit I'm dying. So I'm either optimistic or in denial.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.

Denial is an ugly thing.

Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.