Denial Quotes - Page 7

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

A lot of people that are in the disease of drinking and using can be caught up on the denial aspect of it. I don't have a problem with that. I am very sensitive. I can just feel when things are getting out of control and I go, 'Oh, you have to deal with this. Because you can die.' I've always sort of had that.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

They that do much themselves deny, Receive more blessings from the sky.

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

What has actually to be said about the Cause of everything is this. Since it is the Cause of all beings, we should posit and ascribe to it all the affirmations we make in regard to beings, and, more appropriately, we should negate all these affirmations, since It surpasses all being. Now we should not conclude that the negations are simply the opposites of the affirmations, but rather that the cause of all is considerably prior to this, beyond privations, beyond every denial, beyond every assertion.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.