“To believe something is to believe that it is true. And to believe that it is true entails believing that its denial… — David Werther Copy Share Image
One of the stupidest mistake in life is thinking that the person who hurt you won't hurt you again. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
No more lies! No more denies! And no more goodbyes! After being hurt and bruised for so long, you realize that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
No matter how many times I tell myself I'm over you, I always still find myself thinking about you... — Emily Hurst Copy Share Image
“Behaviorism entails the systematic denial of meaning, a denial which does violence to both the evidence and the everyday experience of humanity.” — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly… — Judith Herrin Copy Share Image
“The human brain can protect us from seeing and feeling what it believes may be too uncomfortable for us to tolerate. It… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up… — Edna Longley Copy Share Image
“The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders… — Lani Guinier Copy Share Image
“Both incest and the Holocaust have been subject to furious denial by perpetrators and other individuals and by highly organised groups such… — Janet Walker Copy Share Image
The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands… — Chinweizu Ibekwe Copy Share Image
It's odd. Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing. I'd been in… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“So you're going to live in denial?" "That's preferable, yes." "You realize you can't live in denial land forever." "Why not? It's… — Jaci Burton Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been lying in bed, darkness all around, when suddenly there's an odd sound? You know you weren't dreaming; you… — Greg F. Gifune Copy Share Image
I must say that the Katrina response does help me better understand the situation in Iraq, ... The best bet is that… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“Why do you fight it?" I whisper. "Because this is wrong. I lost my head for a moment. I'd blame the alcohol… — N. Michaels Copy Share Image
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the Catholic tradition, the idea of giving something up on a Friday - the act of self denial - has always… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has… — Julian Sanchez Copy Share Image
“Denial and the desire to self-destruct are elemental cousins; mining one yields the other in equal proportion.” — Domenica Ruta Copy Share Image
To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self). — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God. — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“To display one's talents is not an objectionable subject. However, denial of others' talents is tantamount to denying yourself.” — Ehsan Sehgal Copy Share Image
One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“Go ahead, look at the message. You know you want to.” “No, it doesn’t matter.” “Then why do you keep staring at… — Victoria Michaels Copy Share Image
You can't pretend that certain negative things didn't happen to you.You can't be set free while living in denial. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
People will choose to blame their circumstances on fate or bad luck. Very few will admit its mainly the choices they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
