Denial Quotes
636 Denial quotes by 510 unique authors
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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
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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
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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.
— Michael Pollan
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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
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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
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As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
— R C Sproul
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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
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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
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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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The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand…
— Emma Goldman
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a…
— Marcel Proust
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The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because…
— Richard Bach
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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
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When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
— Deepak Chopra
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Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its…
— Kamila Shamsie
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If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane…
— Dennis Lehane
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Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have…
— Emily Giffin
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Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.
— Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Who Wrote These Denial Quotes
510 authors contributed a total of 636 Denial Quotes, led by these top contributors: