Top 100 Quotes About In Denial
#1. Maybe we can stay in denial together forever?' I suggest.
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'No, I mean, maybe there's a town called Denial, and we can literally move there and forget about college.
Emily Henry
#2. 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
#3. I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.
Emma Watson
#5. I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.
Noam Chomsky
#6. But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#7. 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
#8. All our promises and resolutions end in denial because we have no power to accomplish them.
Oswald Chambers
#9. I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.
Carrie Fisher
#10. So often in our society, we are encouraged to disregard our fears and to simply "think positive thoughts". This is nothing more than engaging in denial which is not only ineffective, it is unhealthy.
Robin S. Sharma
#11. I'd been an idiot to think that this was anything but a quest. Searches were nice and soft and cuddly and no one need be killed. A quest always demanded the death of a trusted colleague and one or more difficult dilemmas. I'd been in denial. I'd been a fool.
Jasper Fforde
#12. 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
#13. In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
Christopher Hitchens
#14. She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity.
Fuyumi Ono
#15. As in all addiction, we are in denial about the degree to which we are controlled by our god-substitutes.
Timothy Keller
#16. If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.
Jeanette Winterson
#17. In ancient mythology," Langdon offered, "a hero in denial is the ultimate manifestation of hubris and pride. No man is more prideful than he who believes himself immune to the dangers of the world.
Dan Brown
#18. When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.
Lindsey Buckingham
#19. 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
#20. Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.
Marion Ross
#21. In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.
Ayad Akhtar
#22. The worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves. we live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we are afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we will lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.
Richard Bach
#24. Why hasn't Marie shot you yet?" "Because I'm not in denial about what my cock wants," Horse replied. "I piss her off, I get no pussy. Watch and learn.
Joanna Wylde
#25. Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial.
T.F. Hodge
#26. I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
David Bowie
#27. I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.
Stephen Rea
#28. Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.
Nora Ephron
#29. Some women are convinced that they are the same size they were 20 years ago. They also wear clothes that are too big in an effort to hide their body. Both cases are unflattering and work against your body. Some women are in denial about changing.
Stacy London
#30. 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
#31. The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.
Richard Bach
#32. You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree life, until one day you're finally cornered by a truth that can no longer be ignored.
Glenn Beck
#33. I don't think there's anything else we can do for him as long as he's in denial. No one's going to convince him that he's sick.
Xavier Francisco Amador
#34. Pay attention. Be alert. Don't be in denial. Learn
Marxxha
#35. 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
#37. I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.
Abraham Verghese
#38. But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#39. In very rare cases, people will be self-satisfied and content within themselves. More often than not the very same people who choose to live alone are simply in denial after a painful experience or the failure in an intimate relationship.
Nityananda Das
#40. I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.
Lorraine Bracco
#41. I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not."
Carrie Fisher
#42. I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.
Graham Norton
#43. My family's big on denial. And if we denied something long enough, we thought it'd go away. I know that's not how it works, but we're in denial about that, too.
Lisa Shearin
#44. I'm terrified of learning the truth. About my mission. About Axton. About who I really am, and what I'm capable of doing. I'd rather stay in denial. Because if there's one thing I'm certain of, it's that I'm not going to like the truth of my apparent new reality.
Siobhan Davis
#45. - 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
#46. By playing these games about "arbitrary" gender roles, we have not succeeded in outlawing masculinity, but we have robbed it of much of its vocabulary. There are not very many acceptable ways to speak "masculine" anymore. We are all in denial, and the results are not pretty.
Douglas Wilson
#47. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
J. Donald Walters
#48. If your eyes can not cry, then your gut will.
The head and heart may be in denial of your human needs, but the gut will always carry the wisdom of your needs met and unmet, and thusly respond.
Martha Char Love
#49. American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.
RuPaul
#50. I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.
David Geffen
#51. Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
Criss Jami
#52. Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.
Michael Fassbender
#53. Like David we have a number of self-destructive options we use to avoid repenting and admitting sin. I'll list them and let you come up with personal examples for each: deny, avoid, blame shift, rationalize, and give excuses. If you can't think of how you've used these, you may be stuck in denial!
James MacDonald
#54. I tell myself, 'If I can wake up each day and be excited about what I'm doing, then I must be happy.' But then again, maybe I'm in denial.
Alexandra Cassavetes
#55. It stings every now and then, but I've moved on. Not only that, but I've moved on without suppressing shit and being in denial.
Cara Dee
#56. It wasn't easy, I told you I ran around in circles for hours screaming my head off, but hey, why live in denial? It's more fun to embrace the crazy.
Kristin Jacques
#57. A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
Dean Koontz
#58. She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
Boy George
#59. 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.
Aysha Taryam
#60. My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.
Tupac Shakur
#61. We're not citizens anymore. We're consumers. That's what we're called. It's just like being an alcoholic and being in denial that you're an alcoholic. We're in denial that each and every one of us is the problem. And until we face up to that, nothing's going to happen.
Yvon Chouinard
#62. Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears.
Nikki Reed
#63. I think sometimes we're presented with the truth but we don't want to believe it. We see things the way we want to see them. Sometimes, we choose to live in denial.
Amber L. Johnson
#64. this town is sometimes too much, so desperate and so in denial.
Gillian Flynn
#65. 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
#66. I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
Jaclyn Smith
#67. I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
Carl Paladino
#68. Thigpen gave her that cringing, sly feeling incompetents in denial always engendered. In government service, she'd felt it enough times to trust her instincts. Randy
Nevada Barr
#69. To survive you must surrender without giving in, that is to say, fully accept the reality in all its horror and never give up the will to survive. That allows you to quickly adapt to the situation and dedicate yourself to the present moment rather than wallow in denial.
Laurence Gonzales
#70. Indians are in denial mode and wake up only when foreigners treasure India. They don't seem to know the value and,therefore, don't take pride in their tradition, unlike Westerners who take a lot of pride in theirs, even if there is little to be proud of
Maria Wirth
#71. I can sit in denial of my life because in looking around I see how lucky I am to have survived it.
K. Farrell St. Germain
#72. Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All things are subject to abuse, all things are susceptible to beneficial use. And balance does not consist in denial, or excess of indulgence.
John Parsons
#74. The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves, and most people are mad at their parents. You don't have to be in denial to doubt that truths like these will set us free.
Wendy Kaminer
#75. A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.
Pamela Anderson
#76. Speaking out about ritual abuse brings more information and potential understanding about this issue to a society steeped in denial. There are many similar or related horrors in the world that are also denied.
Jadelinn
#77. The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#78. Maybe we choose to stay in a constant state of ignorance as a protective instinct - maybe I was just in denial. I just don't get how you can be completely in love with someone one day, and then all of a sudden you just aren't. I will never forget that day ... the day where I became numb.
Piper Caleb
#79. Republicans are afraid to act in accordance with the election results. Republicans seem to be in denial about election results. It's one thing for Democrats to be in denial about the Republican electoral juggernaut, but it's strange that Republicans are in denial about it too.
Ann Coulter
#80. On the airplane, Sly and I were smoking stogies and constantly trading jokes. We never talked about the feud. We were typical guys, totally in denial, as if there had never been any problem and nothing had ever happened.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#81. It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved. One of our great strengths is that we're an optimistic people, but that doesn't mean we don't have sad days.
Marianne Williamson
#82. When I found out I was having twins, I mean, I was in denial that I was even pregnant. So when I found out I was having twins, I kind of just laughed and was like, "Of course this would happen."
Jennifer Lopez
#83. (Sometimes it seems that haters are just fans who are in denial.)
Steve Maraboli
#84. I'm still learning how dogged people can be in denial, even when their freedom or their lives are at stake.
Octavia E. Butler
#85. I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing.
Miranda Hart
#86. Can we please drop the whole 'school starts tomorrow' talk? I'd like to live in denial for a little while longer.
Aileen Erin
#87. Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.
Laurence Overmire
#88. It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.
Donald Byrd
#89. Denying that you're in denial is being in denial and is utterly redundant.
S.L. Naeole
#90. Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.
Jim Butcher
#91. My eyes are trained on the trees, but my heart begins to race. "Maybe it's time you try," I say. I'm not in denial; I've always known Realm was hiding something. But now, here, I'm scared of what he has to say.
Suzanne Young
#92. The first thing any charlatan needs is nomenclature. A special language. Trappings. That's the true genesis of psychobabble terms such as 'disclosure' and 'in denial.' Every good con man needs plausibility ...
Andrew Vachss
#93. I wanted to walk away in denial, watch the news and believe the cat was faking the whole thing for attention.
Erika Lopez
#94. Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you're not in denial, you're not pretending, and you're not avoiding.
Debbie Ford
#95. We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.
Philip Berrigan
#96. Look at every show on television; it's derivative of another show that came before it. It was only a matter of time. So all you 'Mentalist' fans, it's okay to like the show, but don't be in denial of where it came from. Friday nights, U.S.A., basic cable-style baby.
James Roday
#97. Was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?
Ian McEwan
#98. I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are
the real boundaries.
Katy Lederer
#99. I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.
Lucy Hale
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