Denial Quotes

636 Denial quotes by 510 unique authors

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means… — Voltairine de Cleyre
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. — Oscar Wilde
Denial is an ugly thing. — Nicholas Sparks
States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights… — Robert Kennedy
when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions… — Martin Amis
Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about… — Cesar Millan
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life. — Richard Paul Evans
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. — Oscar Wilde
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep… — Dean Koontz
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice… — Michel Foucault
If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in… — Mahatma Gandhi
Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Security is the denial of life — Germaine Greer
Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his… — Mircea Eliade
Denial is a save now, pay later scheme. — Gavin de Becker
What state do you live in? Denial. — Bill Watterson
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way… — Kay Redfield Jamison
But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of… — Oscar Wilde
Work on your strong qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die.… — Unknown Author
Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in… — Paul Auster
Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked… — Henry Rollins
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. — George R. R. Martin

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