Success Quote by David Geffen

A mogul’s version of a love confession rarely arrives wrapped in poetry. Geffen’s line lands like a boardroom aside: cool, compact, and uncomfortably diagnostic. “Denial” is a clinical word, the language of coping mechanisms and negotiated reality. Pair it with “the people we love,” and he’s pointing at a bargain most relationships quietly run on: we edit, downplay, and reframe what we can’t afford to see, because seeing it clearly would force change.

The intent isn’t to sneer at affection; it’s to name its hidden operating system. Denial becomes less a moral failure than a strategy for attachment. We stay close by maintaining a curated story about someone’s capacity, motives, fidelity, addiction, ambition, cruelty, fragility - whatever threatens the bond. The subtext is transactional in a way that feels distinctly Geffen: love as an investment with risk, volatility, and a steady stream of inconvenient data. You don’t keep the relationship by winning every argument with reality; you keep it by choosing which truths to price in.

Context matters because Geffen’s world - entertainment, power, reputational management - is built on selective perception. Celebrity culture trains everyone, not just stars, to collaborate in a flattering narrative. Even privately, the impulse persists: we protect the “brand” of the person we love so we can keep loving them without swallowing the full cost.

The line works because it flips a sentimental assumption. Love isn’t clarity; it’s often willful blur. The sting is that he says “we’re all” - not accusing a single type of fool, but implicating the entire audience in the soft frauds that make intimacy possible.