Denial Quotes · Page 11

“Denial makes people repeat what they aren’t willing to acknowledge.”

— Daniel Black

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

— James E. Faust

[Donald Trump] has a huge mandate and they're still in denial and do not even know it yet.

— Rush Limbaugh

Fighting your feelings is the most difficult battle ever.

— Anonymous

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

— Sharon Salzberg

The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.

— Anonymous

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

— Louisa May Alcott

I act like your absence doesn't bother me at all, but it's killing me inside.

— Anonymous

Denial is a powerful weapon. My dad taught me mind over matter. No matter how hurt I got, he didn't mind.

— Christopher Titus

“I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was…

— Emily Andrews

“Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.”

— Geoffrey Wood

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

Pretending not to care about someone is painful but in addition to that, it also makes your desire for them even stronger.

— Anonymous

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do…

— William Law

That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its…

— Ernest Holmes

“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense.…

— Jasmine Ann Cooray

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Over the years I had become more loyal to my own kind than to humans. As though a string was being stretched…

— N. Torres

“Denial of perpetration is simply not evidence that none has occurred, because even when there is physical evidence of abuse, sexual abusers…

— Anonymous

Britain has been responsible for the undermining of democracy, turning a blind eye to abuses by its allies, using extraordinary rendition to…

— Deeyah Khan

“Self-denial is the birth pang of spiritual joy. No woman seeks birth pangs, but she willingly endures them for the pleasure of…

— Walter J. Chantry

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Your emotions cloud your judgment. They form a perfect smoke screen for denial, making your path in life feel murky and confusing.…

— Jon Acuff

“For all this talk about us being a nation at war with child abuse, and for all the media hype about witch-hunts…

— Ross Cheit

To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I…

— Michael J. Fox

Since many people have been asking me to elaborate on why I think "Inglourious Basterds" is akin to Holocaust denial, I'll try…

— Jonathan Rosenbaum

There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead…

— Wendy Kaminer

Very few people would choose to have even the most fabled assortment of goods if it meant getting cancer within the year.…

— Paul L Wachtel

…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things…

— William Faulkner

“The narcissist, cut off from her spirituality, is one who spends unquantifiable energy supporting and maintaining and utterly and completely fake self,…

— Stacey Scott Mae

“Many professionals have to sign gagging clauses or face the sack if they speak out. The social worker and therapist was familiar…

— Beatrix Campbell

“Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.”

— Shannon L. Alder

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

— Ruth St. Denis

Id like to say I dont care, but the sad thing is I do.

— Anonymous

“The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on.”

— Georgina Kleege

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

— Winston Churchill

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

— Lane Evans

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

— Lewis Mumford