Denial Quotes

Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.

You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.

Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.

Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

[Donald Trump] has a huge mandate and they're still in denial and do not even know it yet.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm.

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

I didn't want to be the monster! I didn't want to kill this room full of harmless children! I didn't want to lose everything I'd gained in a lifetime of sacrifice and denial!

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.

My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial.

Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.

If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.

Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.

society has an embarrassing history of denial

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear so don't look and they'll stay farther away than you expect they would.

No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.

Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.

Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle.

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.

False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is.

Societies have a peculiar way of relating, or more accurately non-relating, to rape maybe because it is so vicious, they choose to live in denial about it.

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.

I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late

With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to convince people of things they don't want to know.

It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to.

They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay

Denial has rented a room in my head and frequently stomps around slamming doors.

Apparently, denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

Now what state do you live in?''Denial.

Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.

The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.

Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.

The truth has become an insult.

The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.