Denial Addiction Quotes & Sayings
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I felt the back of my neck crawl. The crawling reached around to the corners of my jaw, then up to my temple, and across my cheeks.
I reached up to touch it. Splinters, small fingers, hooks. Scraping at my fingertips, gouging. Slowly reaching for my eyes, reaching for my remaining flesh.
Tiny, like the legs of spiders, pincers, fish hooks, they stabbed and set themselves into the flesh that remained, around my mouth, near my eyes, at my forehead. Then they stopped. Waited.
Asking. Offering. A deal with the devil, metaphorically speaking.
Give up your face if you truly want wings. Give up your eyes.
I could hear the dragon screech, not all that far away. This crisis I faced was removed from a very large, very real crisis that threatened people and Others I cared a great deal about.
Do it, and you can fly. Fly, and you might be able to do something to save them. — Wildbow

From activist stage, I just spoke and said whatever I had to say. When the writing started, I would just read it. Then I had the interest into going into musical aspects. When that happened in '86, I liked the result of work we did in the studio. — John Trudell

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance. — Rima Fakih

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary. — Edward Hopper

Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom. — Voltairine De Cleyre

Life is like a magical bud hoping to bloom into a beautiful flower that will beautify humanity with her petals of love. — Debasish Mridha

Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it? — Barbara Kingsolver

Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial. — William H. Calvin

Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness. — D.H. Lawrence

We must be honest here, and not defensive; the issues are now too grave and too urgent. Our inability to see our personal failures is paralleled by our inability to see our institutional and national sins too. It is the identical and same pattern of addiction and denial. Thank God that Pope John Paul II introduced into our vocabulary words like "structural sin" and "institutional evil." It was not even part of the conversation in most of Christian history up to now, as we exclusively concentrated on "personal" sins. The three sources of evil were traditionally called "the world, the flesh, and the devil." We so concentrated on the flesh that we let the world and "the devil" get off scot-free.8 — Richard Rohr

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain. — Gabor Mate

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it. — Cheryl Strayed

When anything difficult arises - any kind of conflict, any notion of unworthiness, anything that feels distasteful, embarrassing, or painful - instead of trying to get rid of it, we breathe it in. The three poisons are passion (this includes craving or addiction), aggression, and ignorance (which includes denial or the tendency to shut down and close out). We would usually think of these poisons as something bad, something to — Pema Chodron

Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand. — Bob Proctor

Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratification, the dreamworld, and escape from all pain and boredom. All of this is part of what addicts believe and what we hope for when we reach for our particular substance ... Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. Advertising is all about this false hope. — Jean Kilbourne

The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because it's so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind? — John Bradshaw

When you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you. — Ryan Holiday

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form. — Geoffrey Wood

Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial. — David Stafford

When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent. — Taite Adams

Feel like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language in the meantime and can't understand a word he's saying. — Sylvia Plath

As in all addiction, we are in denial about the degree to which we are controlled by our god-substitutes. — Timothy Keller

Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage thus we either don't see it, or when confronted, deny it. — Warren Farrell

He was discovering that even hatred died a little at the end. But it still lasted longer than desire, longer even than love. — P.D. James

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic. — William Drummond