Denial Quote by Marian Keyes

“I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.”

Marian Keyes

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“As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.”

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I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how…

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“I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when you’re already in crisis: you have to…

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“The last time I’d been unwell, suicidally depressed, whatever you want to call it, the reactions of my friends and family had fallen into several different camps: The Let’s Laugh It Off merchants: Claire was the leading light. They hoped that joking about my state of mind would reduce it to a manageable size. Most likely to say, ‘Feeling any…

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I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going…

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Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers,…

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“Guilt is a self-indulgence.”

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“I awake. I don’t mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings.”

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It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.

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I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put…

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I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.

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Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past…

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A mistake doesnt make you a fool, but denying it surely makes you one.

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It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

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Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s…

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But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

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What you try to bury just ends up burying you.

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Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

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“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster in the lives of children subject to organised victimisation (eg Bibby 1996b, Itziti 1997, Kelly and Regan 2000). Most attempts to examine organised abuse have been undertaken by therapists and social workers who have focused primarily on the…

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Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

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People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're telling me something about yourself, which you don't want to reveal. Accessing that hidden side is what good acting is all about. And there are only a handful of people in the entire United States who interest me…

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