Denial Of Quotes

#1. Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle - like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

Dan Brown

#2. Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.

Jan Schakowsky

#3. Sometimes the smallest acts of sacrifice or self-denial can break up hard soil. A

John Ortberg

#4. Can I ask you a personal question? Of all the rhetorical questions
in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its
simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about
to follow.

Kamila Shamsie

#5. With the publication of this book we, as non-Jews, are doing our small part to stand up for the truth. So let us state unequivocally here and now: the Holocaust happened EXACTLY as per the history books. Period. Fact. No debate whatsoever.

James Morcan

#6. Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women.

Janet E. Smith

#7. Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

Vince Lombardi

#8. 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.

Shlomo Breznitz

#9. The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. He may take long walks
in the raining dark
almost aimlessly
to a spot of soaked grass
in a neighbor's open field.
He's decided this is the place
for you and him to meet again.

Kristen Henderson

#11. Another of the difficulties of having DID is the denial. DID is a disorder of denial. It has to be because if the original person knew about the alters and felt their pain, they would either go crazy and be hospitalized permanently, or would die.

Eve N. Adams

#12. While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.

Bell Hooks

#13. If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

Donald Hall

#14. There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

Gail Sheehy

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

Noam Chomsky

#16. There is nothing so consistent with reason as this denial of reason.

Blaise Pascal

#17. 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.

Pope Francis

#18. I was deliberately southern African. Not in a good or easy way. There is no getting around the fact that there had been so much awful violence to get me here; my people had engaged in such terrible acts of denial and oppression; I so obviously did not look Africa; and yet here I still was.

Alexandra Fuller

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

Derek R. Audette

#20. The denial of truth does not harm the Truth; it only harms that which denies the Truth.

Criss Jami

#21. It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself (p. 5)

Cathy Caruth

#22. The worst denial of all is being in denial that we're in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that's not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.

R.C. Sproul

#24. It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#25. I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

Richard Baxter

#26. 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.

George MacDonald

#27. The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be "secured" - but with no accompanying responsibility - is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security.

Fulton J. Sheen

#28. If having true love and love that is expressive and free outside of work affects a project where you have to be restrained and in denial and fixed and closed off. This doesn't mean you go out and just destroy your love outside of your life and kind of mirror your movie.

Heath Ledger

#29. SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.

Ambrose Bierce

#30. Not only is religion divisive and oppressive, it is also a denial of all that is divine in people; it is a suffocation of the soul.

Tom Robbins

#31. 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.

Nora Ephron

#32. Shock is the stepsister of denial. It cushions the blow to your psyche when really fucked up things happen.

Lisa Unger

#33. Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all.

Frank Rich

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

Sunday Adelaja

#35. 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.

Tobsha Learner

#36. The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#37. Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

Lord Acton

#38. It is not the same as optimism or wishful thinking, for these imply a denial of reality.

Philip Yancey

#39. The vast majority of women who say that they are being abused are telling the truth. I know this to be true because the abusers let their guard down with me, belying their denial.

Lundy Bancroft

#40. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

William James

#41. The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.

Barbara Boxer

#42. For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in women, sometimes by a pattern of loving and leaving them.

Judith Viorst

#43. Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it.

Shannon L. Alder

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

Eric Cantor

#45. I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Donald Judd

#46. The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Simon Wiesenthal

#47. I must not, like the quietists, reduce all religion to a denial of any specific action, despising all other means, since what makes perfection is God's order, and the means he ordains is best for the soul.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#48. Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial.

Richard Rohr

#49. All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Isaiah Berlin

#50. 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.

Graydon Carter

#51. The oral (Laetrile) had been 'toxified' by adding cyano-urea in the NCI ... (NCI's) Mayo (Clinic) dismissed well responding patients to discard them from statistical evaluation ... This kind of fraud which I expressed ... and which was openly published ... has ... not resulted in any denial.

Hans Alfred Nieper

#52. 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.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#53. Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.

Charles Spurgeon

#54. I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

David Brainerd

#55. By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Jackie Mason

#56. Bringing Israel and modern Zionism into the subject of the Holocaust is to bring current (i.e. late 20th and early 21st Century) issues into a historical event that occurred on another continent altogether in the early-mid 20th Century.

James Morcan

#57. Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Voltaire

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

Seneca.

#59. - then more Losses, with the Substance seeming like the only consolation against the pain of the mounting Losses, and of course you're in Denial about it being the Substance that's causing the very Losses it's consoling you about -

David Foster Wallace

#60. I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

Rabih Alameddine

#61. We need to stop allowing the unsupported testimony of children who are of an age where they can barely distinguish fantasy and reality.

Mary Pride

#62. I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn't born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that's how my breakups tend to play out.

Chelsea Handler

#63. I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

Ralph Ellison

#64. 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.

Dennis Prager

#65. The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

Jacob Burckhardt

#66. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#67. For many things were shown,
Recorded and written down.
But what is God to do,
When His Word you do renounce?

Kari L. Greenaway

#68. A 2013 study by Riley Dunlap and political scientist Peter Jacques found that a striking 72 percent of climate denial books, mostly published since the 1990s, were linked to right-wing think tanks, a figure that rises to 87 percent if self-published books (increasingly common) are excluded.23

Naomi Klein

#69. If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#70. Most of us are adept at maintaining our self-structures and denying to awareness experiences which challenge our status quo.

Alan Coulson

#71. 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.

Eckhart Tolle

#72. The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

Henry Blackaby

#73. Once the wounded child awakens to its human self, a primal scream emerges from the depths of denial like the Kraken released from its underwater prison.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#75. I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

Edward Hirsch

#76. You'd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

Dianna Hardy

#77. Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity

Nikolai Berdyaev

#78. 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.

Charles Caleb Colton

#79. I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.

Emily Andrews

#80. In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible and impossible in human experience. As simple as they may sound, it may be difficult to do so.

Aphrodite Matsakis

#81. Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil.

M.F. Moonzajer

#82. After accepting the bitter truth of society, I set myself out to lead a life for myself entirely. I realized that the poisonous tentacles of society does not spare anyone, especially people like us. Once I realized that, I became strong from within.

Santosh Avvannavar

#83. Denial may be neither a matter of telling the truth nor intentionally telling a lie. There seem to be states of mind, or even whole cultures, in which we know and don't know at the same time.

Stanley Cohen

#84. 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.

William Law

#85. There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

J.I. Packer

#86. What affirmation and denial are in the case of thinking, pursuit and avoidance are in the case of longing for something.

Aristotle.

#87. What we call 'normal' [sane] is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on our experience" (R. Laing, 1967, p. 27).

Michael Guy Thompson

#88. Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

Robert Anthony

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

Wendy Kaminer

#90. The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto).

James H. Cone

#91. Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.

Eckhart Tolle

#92. Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

Susie Orbach

#93. People do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection

Natascha Kampusch

#94. Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.

Ralph Nader

#95. Woe to any climate denier who called climate change a hoax when she was nearby.

Donald G. Firesmith

#96. But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home producers, with a view to supply foreigners at a cheaper rate, and give them all the benifet of the national privation and self denial?

Jean-Baptiste Say

#97. Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

#98. Who are we when we don't allow flaws in our existence, but people of denial? To delude ourselves into believing we are perfect or that perfection exists at any level is an injustice to who we really are.

Sarah Noffke

#99. It is a kind of geisha containment, a shutteredness, a withdrawal and negation. It's as if she is capable of sensing when people are on the point of knowing who she is and she sends them a subliminal denial.

Deirdre Madden

#100. Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

Emily Mortimer