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Denial
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“You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there. ”
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“It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.”
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“To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely more power than a need accepted.”
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“Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.”
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“It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself ...”
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“Great repressions create dualities.”
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“It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.”
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“He had had experience with suppression; whatever it was didn't stay suppressed, but wandered around in the body and the mind looking for a place to hurt.”
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“... nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.”
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“Whatever we repress eventually develops aspects of terror.”
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“Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.”
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“Whatever misfortune came, he was always able to meet it by refusing to recognize it for what it was.”
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“Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism — and sometimes it's both.”
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“I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.”
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“Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.”
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“... what you try to bury just ends up burying you.”
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“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
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“Our house was engulfed in flames, yet I was told repeatedly that there was no fire.”