Emily Dickinson Quotes

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

I think people, whether they realize they're doing it or not, seek out distractions to take their minds off what they know is bad behavior.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

Denial is a powerful force.

When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you.

I'm very good at denial.

We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.

A part of me likes to pretty up feelings that aren't so pretty.

When I'm facing an issue or a challenge sometimes, it's easier for me to avoid really facing that or dealing with it, and just go make films.

'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.

jokes are used to hide the truth!

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.