Quotes and Sayings about Denial

Denial is the most predictable of all human responses.

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.

Already I can see the chain reaction. The chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason.

Sooner or later you're going to realize, just as I did, that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Everything that has a beginning has an end.

Touch me and that hand will never touch anything again.

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure it was real? What if you were unable to awake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world, and the real world?

I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.

I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth; the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy, and delicious. After nine years.. you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss!

Billions of people just living out their lives oblivious.

Still using all the muscles except the one that matters?

You see there is only one constant. One universal. It is the only real truth. Causality. Action, reaction. Cause and effect.

Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without.

I love French wine, like I love the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with.

Denial is the most predictable of all human responses.

Trinity: "You said it was suicide."
Morpheus: "Then let us hope that I was wrong."

I remember that I am here not because of the path that lies before me but because of the path that lies behind me.

What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.

If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then "real" is simply electrical signals, interpreted by your brain.

You've already made the choice. You're here to understand why you've made it.

What do all men with power want? More power.

The Oracle: "Candy?"
Neo: "Do you already know if I'm going to take it?"
The Oracle: "Wouldn't be much of an Oracle if I didn't."

Commander Lock: "Dammit, Morpheus. Not everyone believes what you believe."
Morpheus: "My beliefs do not require them to."

This is the first day of the rest of your life. But if you want it, you gotta fight for it.

Neo: "Am I crazy?"
Therapist: "We don't use that word in here."

Being The One is just like being in love. No one can tell you you're in love, you just know it.

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

The bigger the lie, the more people believe in it.

Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?

Give them the right lie and they'll believe it.

Which is worse: A lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

Sometimes, lies are more interesting than the truth.

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

It's not lies that cut but the sharpness of the truth.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Lies are exactly what people tell to make life more bearable. To avoid pain and suffering and hurting people.

When enough people make false promises, words stop meaning anything. Then there are no more answers, only better and better lies.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

No matter what lies you tell, you can't fool your own heart.

Lie become truth only if person want to believe it.

Always telling the truth is for cowards. Lying takes courage. Lies are simply an investment in your future. Any like any good investment, nothing can go wrong, as long as you stay on top of things.

What is the cost of lies? It's not that we mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all.

Lying is the worst of all evils. Everything else that is diabolical comes from it.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.