Denial Quotes

636 Denial quotes by 510 unique authors

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. — William Graham Sumner
People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. — Mark Twain
Debate is so much better than denial. — Julie Walters
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. — Bill Watterson
Hope is the denial of reality. — Margaret Weis
The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new… — Simon Wiesenthal
It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and… — Naomi Wolf
It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope. — Michael Chabon
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in… — John Kennedy Toole
Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is… — Thomas Merton
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to… — Margaret Weis
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. — Carl Jung
Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and… — Matthew Scully
There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what… — Simone de Beauvoir
I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly… — Caroline B. Cooney
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal. — Simone de Beauvoir
Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent… — Philip Yancey
It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities. — James E. Faust
…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy… — William Faulkner
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see. — Kathryn Lasky
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. — Kurt Vonnegut
The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light. — Martin Amis

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