He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny something -only she doesn't know what to deny! — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
When I found out I was having twins, I was even in denial that I was pregnant. When I found out I… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
“But I can't force everything into the arrangement I'd like. I can't use denial to make everything simple.” — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Copy Share Image
Holocaust denial, once the preserve of fringe conspiracy theorists, has mutated into Holocaust obfuscation, equivocation, and specious comparison on a larger scale… — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
“At one time you take pleasure in a sort of perverse self-denial, and at another you have not resolution to resist a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The plans to lose weight and change personality kept me aloft for two days, only to collapse around my ears. I realize… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
One of the primary conditions for suffering is denial. Shutting our mind to pain, whether in ourselves or others, only ensures that… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
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… — Jaclyn Smith Copy Share Image
“Evidenced in a capacity for denial so that you do not let yourself know what is really going on. You may be… — Carol S. Pearson Copy Share Image
It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A lot of people that are in the disease of drinking and using can be caught up on the denial aspect of… — Bobby Lee Copy Share Image
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Think about it. Ever look in a closet or under the bed, when you’re alone in the house, to ensure an intruder… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The best qualities we have are the ones we never see. And the worst qualities we have are the ones we always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I keep telling myself that I don't miss you and don't love you, hoping one day I'll believe it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's weird...you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more second...just so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to get high than how scary it must be to see who you actually are and take responsibility… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
“The greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
“Didn't we talk about this Mays?" she asked. I looked away from her. "It's just hanging out." "And denial is just a… — A. Meredith Walters Copy Share Image
“How can it be that Jane is with me, and says she loves me? Will she not depart as suddenly as she… — Charlotte Brontë Brontë Copy Share Image
Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't deny yourself of the things you want, because what is denied becomes strongly desired. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
