Denial Quotes · Page 29

One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.

— Tony Robbins

I feel bad for thinking it, but I know its true. Not thinking about things doesnt make them not true.

— Anonymous

“We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

My mind screams 'let go!' but my heart doesn't want to admit defeat and let these feeling show...

— Nicole Hill

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

— Teresa of Avila

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

— Mary Catherwood

“Everyone has a breaking point. Deny it, and you'll blind yourself to know when you've reached yours.”

— Dorothy McFalls

“Buried emotions are caged nighthawks that have fallen in love with the moon. They don’t understand the sun because they were born…

— Shannon L. Alder

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that…

— Desmond Tutu

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade…

— Richard Lamm

“Self-denial means knowing only Christ, and no longer oneself. It means seeing only Christ, who goes ahead of us, and no longer…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we…

— Sam Harris

“In my client who had confessed her “alien abduction” experience, an alter had been instructed that if she began to remember the…

— Alison Miller

I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your…

— Anne Ford

The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves,…

— Wendy Kaminer

Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all…

— Dan Brown

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we…

— Bertrand Russell

“Denial is the first line of defence against a problem and also the easiest, since it requires no action. In Saudi Arabia,…

— Brian Whitaker

“Denial, I have learned, is not the act of lying to yourself. Denial is not an act, it’s a state. It’s the…

— Swan Huntley

We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know…

— Thomas Carlyle

All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and…

— Max Muller

“Shall we not recover ourselves? Shall we not redeem ourselves to one another? Shall we not restore this world? Could we not…

— L.M. Browning

In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The U.S. Government hasn't maintained secrecy regarding UFOs. It's been leaking out all over the place. But the way it's been handled…

— Edgar Mitchell

David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence…

— Margo Kingston

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

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Geoffrey Wood

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

— Christopher Titus

The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can…

— Marcel Proust

“I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to…

— Jim Thompson

“I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the…

— Sherman Alexie

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

— Zoe Saldana

“Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

You'll never be able to hide what you feel. Maybe you can always deny, but actions never LIE.

— Anonymous

It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.

— David Roberts

There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get…

— Collin Peterson