Quotes About Denial

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

Since I'm the youngest in the family, I sulk when my parents deny me something, although I come around when they explain why it was denied.

Some women are convinced that they are the same size they were 20 years ago. They also wear clothes that are too big in an effort to hide their body. Both cases are unflattering and work against your body. Some women are in denial about changing.

I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.

Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.

I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.

I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet are happy to benefit from the products of the methodology that they otherwise deny.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

Like all alchemists, Trump seeks to convert dross into gold, to toss a broth of his incompetence, denial, delay, deception, and failure into some supernatural alembic and extract political advantage.

Be it China, the World Health Organization, the Bavarian Illuminati, or lizard shapeshifters, it's never Trump's responsibility. It's never Trump's fault.

Trump apologized for nothing, including the horrible tape, right? No apology.

I have nothing to do with Donald Trump.

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

Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.

We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.