In Denial Quotes

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

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

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

Self-denial is the best riches.

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

Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.

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

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Whatever we repress eventually develops aspects of terror.

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

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 is a powerful weapon. My dad taught me mind over matter. No matter how hurt I got, he didn't mind.

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.

The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.

Give me romance. Flash. Give me denial.

There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

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

underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

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.

Don't censor incoming data through denial.

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

Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

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.

In the denial of that disorder there is order.

People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

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

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.

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

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.

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.