The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Shock is the stepsister of denial. It cushions the blow to your psyche when really fucked up things happen.” — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“There is a known correlation between denial of one’s sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour.” — Peter Tatchell Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist.” — Brooke Hauser Copy Share Image
The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible… — Aphrodite Matsakis Copy Share Image
When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious… — Myrtle Fillmore Copy Share Image
I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people.… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I don't think that a white woman is in denial when she dyes her hair blonde. And I actually think we are… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
In aversive racism, the concept of racism is abhorrent to that person. But they're filled with racist conditioning and bias, as we… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Bob Torricelli, Democrat member of the Senate, was basically about to be thrown out of office on corruption charges, and he went… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Our world is suffering from metastatic cancer. Stage 4. Racism has spread to nearly every part of the body politic, intersecting with… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Those who deny guilt and sin are like the Pharisees of old who thought our Saviour had a “guilt complex” because He… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved. — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
You can try to change it, hide it, deny it, lie about it... but in the end the truth is still the… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People saw I was in horrendous shape when I was in the WWF. They suggested I go into rehab. I was in… — William Regal Copy Share Image
I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial… — Carles Puigdemont Copy Share Image
There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this,… — Cathy Rigby Copy Share Image
Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
When someone hurts you time and time again, accept the fact that they don't care about you. Its a tough pill to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists. — Christopher X. Brodeur Copy Share Image
