Living In Self Denial Quotes

#1. But Orpheus failed because, like all pakeha, he just couldn't keep his mind on one thing at a time.

David Brin

#2. Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.

Max Ehrmann

#3. I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.

Tiger Woods

#4. We explore to experience, we eat to live and we hate to love

Ikechukwu Izuakor

#5. The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby
reconvened.

Winnie Ewing

#6. Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

Haruki Murakami

#7. When will I realize that without God my world is draped in shadows between which there is not a single ray of light? And when will I recognize that with God, my world is deluged in light between which there is not a single thread of darkness?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Mary J. Blige

#10. It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist.

Brooke Hauser

#11. Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them.

Matthew Scully

#12. To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#13. Only those who have not paid a high price for the gentle joy of living and breathing can allow themselves feelings of melancholy, denial and lofty disdain of life.

Alexander Kushner

#14. I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.

Kangana Ranaut

#15. We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we've done with it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know that you must do.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#17. I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Lorraine Bracco

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

Eric Jerome Dickey

#19. If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own

Donald O. Clifton

#20. I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on.

Russell Brand

#21. I can't get myself to say what happened next. I cannot cope with even thinking about this let alone living with it."
"It is so degrading and I try to forget, it hurts so much because she is my mother."
- Graham talks about being sexually abused by his mother

Carolyn Ainscough

#22. I sometimes wonder whether our churches
living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses
are inadvertently helping people live not as much in hope as in denial.

Mark Galli

#23. 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.

Jo Coudert

#24. What an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave.

Sharon Kay Penman

#25. 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

#26. I want to believe every single lie of hers so I can gladly continue living in denial. I love her that fucking much.

Mia Asher