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Denying Quotes by Ernest Becker
- The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely…
- We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of…
More Denying Quotes
- All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. — Richard Barnfield
- Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce
- I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense… — Tony Campolo
- If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence. — Margaret Cho
- I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard. — Hillary Clinton
- Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants… — William J. Clinton
- It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — James Madison
- The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common… — Malcolm X
- The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies. — Michel de Montaigne
- Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. — George Santayana