“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
Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy. — Tab Hunter Copy Share Image
Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Freedom means something when it has escaped something! Those people who escaped things their inner cages, cages set by others around them,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence… — Charles Spurgeon 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
A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and… — Edward McKendree Bounds 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
Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
It's o.k. if you're in denial now. You think you're o.k... 'you're over him, forget him, his loss, etc. etc.' .. the… — Sage74 Copy Share Image
Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
“It was early in my career, and I had been seeing Mary, a shy, lonely, and physically collapsed young woman, for about three months… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek made the point that one of the keystones of socialism is the denial of individual responsibility. Thus, the crusade for… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails… — Eric Hoffer 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 denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
Rejection doesnt hurt, expectations does. Lying doesnt kill, denial does & forgetting doesnt heal forgiveness does.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God; and, by making you his partner, interests you in all his happiness. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens. — Russ Potts Copy Share Image
When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial.… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself. — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for… — John Viney Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be the monster! I didn't want to kill this room full of harmless children! I didn't want to… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“you cannot replace negative beliefs with positive ones you can't believe- positive ones that are too ambitious. you must find and choose… — Frederick Dodson Copy Share Image
Irrationality may be more prevalent in the party of climate denial, but it isn't limited to Republicans. — Max Boot Copy Share Image
In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.” — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
