Built Quote by Martha Beck

Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.

— Nora Ephron

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

— David Byrne

Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then…

— Paul Gilding

Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing…

— Howard Sasportas

“Denial makes people repeat what they aren’t willing to acknowledge.”

— Daniel Black

While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations.

— Graciela Chichilnisky

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds…

— Cesar Millan

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

— Jane Fonda

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

— Richard Paul Evans

Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways…

— Dan Brown