Denial Quotes

But I can't force everything into the arrangement I'd like. I can't use denial to make everything simple.

A kingdom established on hatred is a function of denial of God

If your eyes can not cry, then your gut will."The head and heart may be in denial of your human needs, but the gut will always carry the wisdom of your needs met and unmet, and thusly respond.

Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher.

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.

A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.

Ben Scott couldn't be afraid of the supernatural. He didn't believe in the supernatural. Ben Scott was firmly convinced that he didn't believe in anything,

The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter--has come up with.

The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.

I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.

We distance ourselves for protection, Wear scarves when it’s cold. What seems most outlandish in our autobiography Is what really happened.

I wasn't crying about mothers, " he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.

You only reveal your game plan when you know you're winning, or losing.

Climate change is like my head: it’s not visible in every instance, but I’m pretty darn sure it’s there.

Buried emotions are caged nighthawks that have fallen in love with the moon. They don’t understand the sun because they were born with the darkness of shadows in their soul.

Maggie scoffed. "Denial will not save you when Cupid's arrow find its mark.""If i see Cupid anywhere in the vicinity, I'm ripping his chubby little arms off." Vanda yanked the door open to Romatech.

If you been feeling or acting crazy, think about it perhaps you are.

The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on.

Go ahead, look at the message. You know you want to.”“No, it doesn’t matter.”“Then why do you keep staring at it like it’s the last piece of food on earth?

If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

Why do you fight it?" I whisper."Because this is wrong. I lost my head for a moment. I'd blame the alcohol but that would be a lie.

People with a style of denial and blaming are definitely on the list of unsafe people to avoid. 10.

How can it be that Jane is with me, and says she loves me? Will she not depart as suddenly as she came? To-morrow, I fear I shall find her no more.

Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.

I find few more satisfying exhibitions of power and control than deliberately creating desire - only to capriciously deny it...

How do I validate him in the face of such profound personal loss and the outrageous denial by the medical community?

It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.

Oftentimes what we do to minimize a problem maximizes it! Embrace truth helps us to let go!

Denial is a very effective human trick. People often tell how a situation was "unbearable, " though, clearly, they have borne it. Lived to tell, so to speak.

I want to thank everyone out there who has chosen not to drive after they have had something to drink.

In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

Maybe we can stay in denial together forever?' I suggest....'No, I mean, maybe there's a town called Denial, and we can literally move there and forget about college.

(Sometimes it seems that haters are just fans who are in denial.)

While I’d like to believe in the possibility of a love that doesn’t involve denial, I haven’t seen an example yet.

She had denied herself the pleasure of openly sharing life with the person she loved.

If I believed a giant Platypus was coming to liberate humanity and save us all, it would still make more sense than the climate denial people do......

Okay, well...how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?

One sure way I can avoid facing myself is by refusing to look into the face of God.

Since when has outright denial of truth become a Nigerian factor?

Not everything needed to be processed. Some things needed to be ignored and slept on.

Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense.

If you always want to have whatever you want any time you want it with no delays, and denial of self, you would end up ruining your life.

Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.

Denial couldn't be maintained.

We cannot live side by side with obviously distressed people unless they are to blame and we are innocent. Nothing inside them or the way they live can be allowed to disturb our lives.

You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree life, until one day you're finally cornered by a truth that can no longer be ignored.

I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan — no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.