Denial Quotes

Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

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.

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding.

It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

What state do you live in? Denial.

People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of 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.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.

Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

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

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

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.

[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.

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

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.

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.

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

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

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.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations.

Self-denial is the best riches.

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

It's so much easier to get high than how scary it must be to see who you actually are and take responsibility for it. Denial is an easy place to live in.

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.

What is even more worrying still is George Osborne's breathtakingly complacent response to today's figures. This is a Chancellor who is in total denial.

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

I actually believe in denial.

Denial is an ugly thing.

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing.