Denial Quotes · Page 9

Life is full of attachments, so being single is a state of inadvertent denial.

— Rashida Khilawala

“Positive thinking founded on denial may not be so great.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

— Mary McMullen

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

— Edwin Louis Cole

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

— Richard Baxter

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

— James Anthony Froude

“Time is denial's mortal enemy and is always victorious against it.”

— Chris Dietzel

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

— Pete Townshend

“High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

— Eckhart Tolle

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Leaned on by Turkey and understandably wary of false equivalences - for not every death is a massacre, and not every war…

— Howard Jacobson

“Sometimes we have to pretend that we don’t care in order to protect ourselves from the fact that we do. And the…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Denial is stupid. We're fighting the living dead. Would you prefer we call them 'undead citizens'?”

— Jonathan Maberry

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

— Charles Spurgeon

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage…

— Graydon Carter

“Professed scientific philosophers have been wont to employ the remoter and refinished products of science in ways which deny, discount or pervert…

— John Dewey

I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think…

— James McGreevey

It disturbs me mostly...is the willful, deliberate denial (by the FDA, of) our own citizens, a fair chance to use Laetrile, when…

— Luther L. Bohanon

We are all born with denial which attempts to protect our minds about painful events in our lives or painful truths about…

— Anonymous

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy…

— Jack Kornfield

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones…

— Murray Gell-Mann

“Megan's silent for a long moment before she murmurs, "I changed my mind." "About what?" "Denial," she says. "I don't want to…

— Emily Henry

A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and…

— Jeremy Taylor

Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear…

— Zhuangzi

Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I…

— Amy Carmichael

Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the…

— James E. Faust

I don't believe that climate-change fiction will change the mind of a denier because most of the deniers I've met are basically…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of…

— Audre Lorde

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to…

— Melody Beattie

“It is a strange thing that the human species can only go three days without water and three weeks without food, before…

— Shannon L. Alder

What we're seeing is an era where governments and huge organizations such as the IOC don't have accountability. They don't have accountability…

— Bryan Fogel

I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths.

— Lucy Lawless

Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.

— Salvador Bernal

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

— Bill Watterson

When you ask for advice it means that you already know the answer but wish you didn't.

— Anonymous

“There is nothing so consistent with reason as this denial of reason.”

— Blaise Pascal

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

— Graham Norton

Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.

— Ralph Nader