Denial Quotes

“Aversion to change is denial of destiny.”

— Andy Harglesis

“Silence is a lie that screams at the light.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Delusion is denial of reality.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Hell is the denial of the ordinary...”

— John Ciardi

“Denial is a powerful force.”

— Sansa Rayne

“life of strict denial is no life at all.”

— Julie Corbin

“Love is about self-denial”

— Sunday Adelaja

Didn't Even Notice I Am Lying.

— Anonymous

Failures are part of life, but most people deny their persuasion due to fear of failure.

— Anonymous

“There's a fine line between forgiveness and denial.”

— Janet Rebhan

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

— Frank Herbert

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

— Richard Paul Evans

No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it

— Nikki Rosen

Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

— Demosthenes

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Antonio Machado

I say I'm over you. I lie to myself, my friends and my family, but every time I see you the feelings…

— Dayna Cooper

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

— Henry Ward Beecher

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what…

— Donald Hall

You can always close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can never close your heart to…

— Anonymous

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

— Germaine Greer

Alan Schwarz of the New York Times calls up the NFL to get a response, and what he gets from Greg Aiello,…

— Steve Fainaru

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and…

— Ambrose Bierce

It is the lack of knowledge of, or the unwillingness to recognise, or the deliberate denial of the existence of the serial…

— Tim Field

The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few…

— John Ralston Saul

...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial…

— Kofi Annan

Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not…

— Hudson Taylor

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident…

— Eric Liu

People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'm pleased because as a comic I live on the fringes of an extreme society. What could be better than satirizing this…

— Eddie Pepitone

“The purpose of a pilgrimage is about setting aside a long period of time in which the only focus is to be…

— L.M. Browning

In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding…

— Christopher Hitchens

“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go…

— Carolyn Spring

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about…

— Agatha Christie

“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the…

— Michael Salter

“The Legend of Robert Halsey This article examines the criminal conviction of Robert Halsey for sexually abusing two young boys on his…

— Ross Cheit

“What was the payoff? It obviously kept me in my cozy zone of being in control, being a good mother, with a…

— Claire Fontaine