Quotes and Sayings About Denial

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.
-- Agatha Christie

#Secret #Wish #Denial

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.
-- Alan Cohen

#Believe #Denial #Distraction

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
-- Albert Camus

#Truth #Mind #Denial

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Desire #Denial #Lasts

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Self #Denial #Indulgence

Great repressions create dualities.
-- Anais Nin

#Denial #Duality

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
-- Antonio Machado

#Philosophical #Denial #Deny

I don't know what's coming next and neither does anyone else. It's something that we do have to face but the thing is that a lot of people don't want to face it. And there's denial. If somebody says it, like me, everybody feels a little better that they can discuss it.
-- Art Buchwald

#Future #People #Denial

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.
-- Arthur Bryant

#Evil #Soul #Denial

The only atheism is the denial of truth.
-- Arthur Lynch

#Atheism #Denial

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
-- Atom Egoyan

#Holocaust #Denial #Forgotten

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.
-- Ayad Akhtar

#Trying #Denial #Levels

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights...
-- Ayn Rand

#Rights #Essentials #Denial

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
-- Betty Ford

#Denial #Never Forget #Reactions

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.
-- Bill Hicks

#Drug #Use #Denial

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.
-- Bill Shankly

#Law #Denial #Eggshells

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
-- Bob Inglis

#Climate #Denial #Way

Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?
-- Bob Inglis

#Moving #Air #Denial

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.
-- Bobby Lee

#Drinking #People #Denial

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

#Insecurity #Balls #Denial

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.
-- Bruce Lee

#Mean #Goal #Denial

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
-- C. Northcote Parkinson

#Procrastination #Denial #Delay

It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.
-- Carl Jung

#Men #Culture #Denial

Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
-- Caroline Knapp

#Self #Denial #Warning

Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.
-- Catharine MacKinnon

#Men #Use #Denial

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
-- Charles Bradlaugh

#Abuse #Denial #Speech

Whatever we repress eventually develops aspects of terror.
-- Christin Lore Weber

#Denial #Aspect #Terror

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
-- Christopher Lasch

#Smile #Denial #Buttons

There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.
-- Christopher X. Brodeur

#Evil #Denial #Victim

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
-- Clarence Thomas

#Race #Humanity #Denial