Denial famous quotes

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.
-- Agatha Christie

#Secret #Wish #Denial

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.
-- Alan Cohen

#Believe #Denial #Distraction

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
-- Albert Camus

#Truth #Mind #Denial

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Desire #Denial #Lasts

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Self #Denial #Indulgence

Great repressions create dualities.
-- Anais Nin

#Denial #Duality

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
-- Antonio Machado

#Philosophical #Denial #Deny

I don't know what's coming next and neither does anyone else. It's something that we do have to face but the thing is that a lot of people don't want to face it. And there's denial. If somebody says it, like me, everybody feels a little better that they can discuss it.
-- Art Buchwald

#Future #People #Denial

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.
-- Arthur Bryant

#Evil #Soul #Denial

The only atheism is the denial of truth.
-- Arthur Lynch

#Atheism #Denial

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
-- Atom Egoyan

#Holocaust #Denial #Forgotten

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.
-- Ayad Akhtar

#Trying #Denial #Levels

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights...
-- Ayn Rand

#Rights #Essentials #Denial

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
-- Betty Ford

#Denial #Never Forget #Reactions

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.
-- Bill Hicks

#Drug #Use #Denial

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.
-- Bill Shankly

#Law #Denial #Eggshells

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
-- Bob Inglis

#Climate #Denial #Way

Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?
-- Bob Inglis

#Moving #Air #Denial

A lot of people that are in the disease of drinking and using can be caught up on the denial aspect of it. I don't have a problem with that. I am very sensitive. I can just feel when things are getting out of control and I go, 'Oh, you have to deal with this. Because you can die.' I've always sort of had that.
-- Bobby Lee

#Drinking #People #Denial

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
-- Boy George

#Insecurity #Balls #Denial

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.
-- Bruce Lee

#Mean #Goal #Denial

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
-- C. Northcote Parkinson

#Procrastination #Denial #Delay

It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.
-- Carl Jung

#Men #Culture #Denial

Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
-- Caroline Knapp

#Self #Denial #Warning

Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.
-- Catharine MacKinnon

#Men #Use #Denial

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
-- Charles Bradlaugh

#Abuse #Denial #Speech

Whatever we repress eventually develops aspects of terror.
-- Christin Lore Weber

#Denial #Aspect #Terror

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
-- Christopher Lasch

#Smile #Denial #Buttons

There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.
-- Christopher X. Brodeur

#Evil #Denial #Victim

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
-- Clarence Thomas

#Race #Humanity #Denial

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
-- David Brainerd

#Retirement #Self #Denial

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.
-- David Geffen

#Believe #People #Denial

Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
-- Demosthenes

#Clouds #Secret #Denial

We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Country #Thinking #Denial

To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#Self #Denial #Way

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.
-- Donald Hall

#Powerful #Done #Denial

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
-- Donald Judd

#Art #Thinking #Denial

If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own
-- Donald O. Clifton

#Wind #Denial #True Strength

When the state executes a member of the human family, it declares that person worthless, without possibility of redemption. As Christians, we believe this is a heresy, a denial that each human being is created in God's own image.
-- Doug Davidson

#Christian #Believe #Denial

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Negativity #Denial #Psychological

To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Attention #Denial #Recognition

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Focus #Denial #Consciousness

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Denial #Sin #Possession

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#Powerful #Law #Denial

I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.
-- Emma Watson

#Thinking #People #Denial

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.
-- Eric Jerome Dickey

#Men #Denial #Way

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?
-- Eric Liu

#Special #Done #Denial

Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.
-- Evan Esar

#Believe #Rumor #Denial

What is art but the denial of life?
-- Fernando Pessoa

#Art #Denial

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
-- Gail Sheehy

#Men #Denial #Ability

If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.
-- Gail Sheehy

#Men #Males #Denial

Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.
-- Gavin de Becker

#Denial #Pay #Schemes

Forgiveness: You cannot afford to withhold forgiveness. Nothing will destroy your life more surely, for there is a great hidden grief in the denial of forgiveness. Your heart is so heavy from what you have not forgiven that you bear the offenses of another as if they were your own.
-- Glenda Green

#Grief #Heart #Denial

Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.
-- Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#Religious #Tolerance #Denial

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.
-- Graham Norton

#Gay #Men #Denial

Know this: God’s delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.
-- Greg Laurie

#Denial #Delay #Praying

The oral (Laetrile) had been 'toxified' by adding cyano-urea in the NCI...(NCI's) Mayo (Clinic) dismissed well responding patients to discard them from statistical evaluation...This kind of fraud which I expressed...and which was openly published...has...not resulted in any denial.
-- Hans Alfred Nieper

#Dark #Age #Denial

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.
-- Henry George

#Land #Use #Denial

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Self #Religion #Denial

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?
-- Ian Mcewan

#Denial #Modern #Term

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Self #Choices #Denial

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
-- Jacques Lipchitz

#Art #Denial #Action

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
-- Jacques Lipchitz

#Art #Sculpture #Denial

If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.
-- James Burgh

#Denial #May #Favour

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.
-- James E. Faust

#Doubt #Denial #Divinity

what you try to bury just ends up burying you.
-- Jane Wagner

#Trying #Denial #Ends

Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women.
-- Janet E. Smith

#Abortion #Catholic #Denial

I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.
-- Jason Momoa

#Training #Mind #Denial

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
-- Javier Bardem

#Denial #World #Truth Is

The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.
-- Jean Genet

#Imagination #Political #Denial

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.
-- Jean-Francois Cope

#Your Smile #Identity #Denial

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.
-- Jeanette Winterson

#Art #Use #Denial

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.
-- Jim Butcher

#Land #Healthy #Denial

Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!
-- Jim Elliot

#Eye #Simplicity #Denial

What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding to have to live with the added ***** of indignity. The denial of one's inevitable demise is what causes most of the astringent blandness in the world. When your existence ends most certainly in death, there is no such thing as 'going too far'. There are no 'lines' you should fear to cross except the finish line. Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you could do.
-- Jim Goad

#Imagination #Fleeting #Denial

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.
-- Jim Sensenbrenner

#Denial #Today #Social

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.
-- Jo Coudert

#Needs #Denial #Way

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
-- Jock Sturges

#Denial #Found #Apartment

Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.
-- John Ashcroft

#Reality #Elements #Denial

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.
-- John Bradshaw

#Denial #Sincere #Delusional

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction
-- John Bunyan

#Denial #Destruction

The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.
-- John F. MacArthur

#Self #Denial #Fulfillment

God's delay's are not His denials
-- John Hagee

#Denial #Delay

Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.
-- John Hart

#Mind #Denial #Weapons

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.
-- John Kennedy Toole

#Denial #Century #Function

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.
-- John Robbins

#Meat #Denial #Life Is

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
-- John Sterling

#Self #Denial #Worst

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.
-- Jonathan Kellerman

#Optimism #Denial #Life Experience

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.
-- Josephine Tey

#Tin #Tails #Denial

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
-- Judith Lewis Herman

#Events #Denial #Conflict

People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.
-- Julie Burchill

#Self #People #Denial

Debate is so much better than denial.
-- Julie Walters

#Denial #Debate

Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.
-- Kamila Shamsie

#Denial #World #Gestures

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.
-- Keith Miller

#Denial #Symptoms #Controllers

I think the US is in a terrible state of denial ... Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Götterdämmerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.
-- Kim Stanley Robinson

#Thinking #Flames #Denial

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.
-- Lauren DeStefano

#Mean #Denial #Kind

Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial.
-- Liane Moriarty

#Giving Up #Wine #Denial

Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.
-- Lisa Unger

#Heritage #Denial #My Family

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.
-- Lord Acton

#Self #Political #Denial

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
-- Lord Chesterfield

#Self #Sake #Denial