Deny Reality Quotes

#1. When you're right there in the crisi, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, distract yourself from the misery, deny reality, not matter how stupid.

Anna Maxted

#2. You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.

Toby Jones

#3. They deny reality because the implications of that reality are, quite simply, unthinkable.

Naomi Klein

#4. It is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of die-hard Stalinists at the height of the purges as it is of libertarian climate change deniers today.

Naomi Klein

#5. We can deny reality, but we can't deny the consequences of denying reality.

Richard Paul Evans

#6. The reality that the (intellectually disabled) person is a version of myself is one from which so much can be learned and gained, and yet, it is a reality which most people deny and try to escape from.

Wolf Wolfensberger

#7. 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

#8. Newt had said I loved Ivy more than the church. I wasn't going to deny it, but there were all kinds of love, and how shallow would I be if my anchor to reality was a hunk of real estate? It was the people who were there that made it mean something.

Kim Harrison

#9. I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you've made a choice. The way I see it you choose either a life of abundant strength and energy, or you're living in the gap, far beneath the quality of life you could be enjoying.

Shawn Phillips

#11. I withdraw my consent from reality. I deny it my assistance. I dedicate myself to the temptations of escapism, and throw myself wholeheartedly into the endlessness of unreality.

Ursula Poznanski

#12. The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully you observe the world and its people around you, the better chance you have of writing something meaningful and well-crafted.

Harlan Ellison

#13. I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our reality is in America. Sitcoms just don't show us that.

Richard Rodriguez

#14. Materialists thereby deny the reality of mind (while they use their minds to advance materialism), determinists deny the reality of human choice (while they choose determinism), and relativists deny the fact of right and wrong (while they judge you if you disagree).

Nancy Pearcey

#15. Climate change is like that; it's hard to keep it in your head for very long. We engage in this odd form of on-again-off-again ecological amnesia for perfectly rational reasons. We deny because we fear that letting in the full reality of this crisis will change everything. And we are right.5

Naomi Klein

#16. Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow.

Norman Geisler

#17. Never deny yourself any pleasure, real or imaginary.

Marty Rubin

#18. Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#19. What you know
and don't deny that
you don't know
and knowing this
you know
what and why
you don't know.
Right?

Jennifer Hillman

#20. By going along with feelings, you unify your emotional, mental and bodily states. When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being.

Jane Roberts

#21. Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it and not waste any energy on wanting it to be different.

David W. Earle

#22. The one factor that nobody can deny in life is the influence of weather; it makes demands upon human beings, every person faces its reality. Weather reminds us that the world is not composed of technological gismos and climate controlled office buildings.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#23. The most effective way to distort reality is to deny it; if we tell ourselves there isn't a problem, then we never have to worry about what to do about it. And the most effective way to deny a reality is to make it invisible.

Melanie Joy

#24. To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime.

David Guterson

#25. The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.

Anthony Daniels

#26. It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

Robert Musil

#27. Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

Garrison Keillor

#28. The reality of life is that, your friends can deny you, your family can deny you but God will never deny you.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#29. What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#30. When you deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Him, you die while you simultaneously truly live. That is when you experience the reality that "whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matthew 16:25).

Tony Evans

#31. Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.

Gregory Koukl

#32. There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

Nancy Pearcey

#33. The voice incessantly quelled in the chorus of human voices will always be the voice of God. And given a reality of this magnitude, I would be well advised to cease my babbling and encourage those around me to do the same.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#34. To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#35. The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines.

Nancy Pearcey

#36. On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.

Marcia Sirota

#37. I am not a believer of the law of attraction (though I do not deny the possibilities of it to be true), but I firmly believe in the ability of making choices, the ability to take conscious decisions.

Namrata Kumari

#38. A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

S. Jay Olshansky

#39. I cannot deny that I have doubts, reservations and fears. However, I have come to the conclusion that in the present regional and international reality, Israel must act with courage to accept the political plan which I described.

Ariel Sharon

#40. To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

David Bentley Hart

#41. Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#42. In the end of the film there is hope, ... There's beauty in ugliness. It's really important for us Latinos to acknowledge each other and not deny the reality, because our reality is fascinating.

Jonathan Jakubowicz

#43. No man can deny the reality of kingdom of God because its laws are programmed within them

Sunday Adelaja

#44. Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist and that there is 'nothing' out there; in making these assertions, their aim was not to deny the reality of God but to safeguard God's transcendence.

Karen Armstrong

#45. It's understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record creates a healthy opportunity to process some of these emotions rather than deny them.

Eddie Vedder

#46. Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

Rajneesh

#47. I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

Hans Kung

#48. Oh yes, I don't deny I married you because I was sorry for you. And then-I found you the best and jolliest and dearest little pal and chum a fellow ever had. Witty-loyal-sweet. You made me believe again in the reality of friendship and love.

L.M. Montgomery

#49. Deny that lack has any place or reality in your
thought or your affairs and affirm plenty as the only
appearance. Praise what you have, be it ever so little,
and insist that it is constantly growing larger.

Charles Fillmore

#50. It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most influential production executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names.

Michael Medved

#51. Asking someone to deny their own inner reality causes further rupture.

Elaine Margolin

#52. It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.

Anne Wilson Schaef

#53. To him a thinking man's job was not to deny one reality at the expense of the other, but to include and to connect.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#54. To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know.

Sengcan

#55. For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#56. In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a huge gamble with the future of every human being on the planet, every future human being, our children and grand children, and every other living species

Edward Davey

#57. Christianity doesn't deny the reality of suffering and evil ... Our hope ... is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering.

Brennan Manning

#58. To deny someone's feelings or experiences it to literally deny their reality.

Danu Morrigan

#59. If you deny the reality of your body or your life, you'll never be able to dress any of it well - even the parts you love. You have to see it all to work with any of it.

Stacy London

#60. Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.

Laurence Overmire

#61. I think God gives medication that heals some illnesses. But I think when you deny the reality of evil, you want to use medicine to solve every problem, and it doesn't solve every problem.

Robert Jeffress

#62. Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.

Billy Graham

#63. There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

Lee Strobel