Denial Quotations

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

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.

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

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.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

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

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

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

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.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

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.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

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

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

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

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.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death.

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.

We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

In the Catholic tradition, the idea of giving something up on a Friday - the act of self denial - has always been tied with being generous to those in need.

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.

When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade.

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

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

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.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

We're in a period of denial about the extent to which racism still exists as a structural phenomenon. It was just so evident in this storm. Even in the language people used.

Whether or not an operating system has a remote command shell says nothing about its ability to withstand other attacks such as denial of service attacks.

What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.

We're involved with ongoing discussion with the parties included in our agreement. But we have not reached any conclusion, nor have we provided any form of acceptance or denial of the proposal. The process is still under way.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get so you can handle mistakes. Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke.

What state do you live in? Denial.

Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?

You don't need the painful memories, because either you've resolved them. Denying always makes them want to come back. Denial is a mechanism that doesn't work. But allowing them to come back in little by little, those memories, you can begin to be quite comfortable with them, and it's even nice to have that as part of the map of your life.

What is even more worrying still is George Osborne's breathtakingly complacent response to today's figures. This is a Chancellor who is in total denial.

Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

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.

A lot of people that are in the disease of drinking and using can be caught up on the denial aspect of it. I don't have a problem with that. I am very sensitive. I can just feel when things are getting out of control and I go, 'Oh, you have to deal with this. Because you can die.' I've always sort of had that.

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.

To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

What you try to bury just ends up burying you.

That which is denied cannot be healed.

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

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.

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

I don't know what's coming next and neither does anyone else. It's something that we do have to face but the thing is that a lot of people don't want to face it. And there's denial. If somebody says it, like me, everybody feels a little better that they can discuss it.

A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference. At the most basic level, don't let denial go unchallenged and win the conversation on climate.

Don't censor incoming data through denial.

Main problem of Bangladesh was its culture of denial by the government by not acknowledging how can the problem be solved,

She decided to issue a formal denial through a public notary in the city, but by then it was too late. Nobody believed her.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

I find it extremely hypocritical that Washington is investigating this group for the 'crime' of traveling to Cuba. The U.S. government is flagrantly violating even the most basic norms of human rights - such as indefinite detention without charges, denial of fair trials and, most importantly, torture. There are far greater crimes at play here than Witness Against Torture's travel logistics.

Given that the Court has not agreed to rehear a decision in over 50 years, this is not a huge surprise. But the denial makes it crystal clear that since the Supreme Court will not protect home and small business owners, it is now up to state legislatures and state courts to protect people from eminent domain abuse.

He expressed the position that NBC is in, ... We're in a rebuilding phase. Nobody's in denial about that.

What we've seen over the last few years in response to this case is the culture of cover up and denial that continues to this very day.

There is an intolerable denial of basic rights here,

There are simply not enough legal residents or citizens in the U.S. to fill all the jobs in our economy. Anti-immigration people are in deep denial about that.

Jack is a very scientific man, very logical and obviously with everything he has seen on this island, he's going to have to find a way to snap out of this denial and start confronting this real reality he's existing in.

I think I said I was in denial and that I just wasn't taking full responsibility for what I'd been part of and I was trying to protect myself, No, I'm telling the truth.

It became the focus of a denial of service attack.

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.

I think we're in denial a little bit." ()

Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine: Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

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.

I was in denial at that time. I read the quote the next day and I thought I might have been pushing a little bit.

I was in denial all the way to the hospital that morning. All the while I was thinking, 'These poor parents that don't know their child is dead yet, because I know it's not my daughter' and then I opened the curtain and there she was.

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

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.