Denial Quotes

636 Denial quotes by 510 unique authors

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and… — Saint Augustine
The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction — John Bunyan
underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice. — David Levithan
No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god." "Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed, A True Atheist… — Terry Pratchett
employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a… — John Kennedy Toole
Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it… — Libba Bray
[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. — Christopher Hitchens
Reality denied comes back to haunt. — Philip K. Dick
In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often… — Christopher Hitchens
I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial. — Jeanette Winterson
The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives. — Joyce Carol Oates
was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial? — Ian Mcewan
But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree. — Eric Jerome Dickey
If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything… — Jonathan Edwards
I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does. — Jasper Fforde
Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a… — Bell Hooks
To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I mean that in… — Michael J. Fox
you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. — Ernest Hemingway
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. — Michael Pollan
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial.… — Dan Barker
If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a… — Harper Lee
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness. — R C Sproul
only a matter of time before it broke through our fragile web of denial, forcing us to confront the truth and acknowledge who we are:… — Tabitha Suzuma
Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better people. Self-denial and… — Marianne de Pierres
Dani," Decker said firmly. "Trust me, this is not a dream." "Why is it you men always say trust me before spitting out something completely… — Lynsay Sands

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