Denial Quotes

A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.

We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.

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

I think that's part of the whole denial and suicidal mechanism [ of the human's race] right "Oh my God, the house is on fire." You sleep through the smoke.

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance.

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

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

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.

I don't run around feeling infused with positivity, but I'll have to be taking my last breath before I'll admit I'm dying. So I'm either optimistic or in denial.

When I found out I was having twins, I was even in denial that I was pregnant. When I found out I was having twins I just laughed. "Of course this would happen!" I started giggling.

Big success requires big sacrifices. Don't find out later that the cost was too high. Denial is said to be even more potent than cocaine; neither drug enhances your marketability.

In the denial of that disorder there is order.

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.

Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires of our heart.

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances.

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

There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline

I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love.

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

The only aberration is denial of self.

There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

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.

The Daily Beast reports today that if Steve Bannon is denied a security clearance, the President could simply overrule that denial and order that security clearance.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

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

And weed's not a drug - that's denial

It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.

Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

By looking the other way on climate change we facilitate a collective denial, and we do it for each other.

I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.

The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems to come when the world decides to jump the rails without warning you first.

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.