Quotes About Denial

Most people managed to evade home truths with astonishing ease.

Do unto others' is an unnatural, inhuman behavior. You can understand why so many churches and churchgoers say it but so few achieve it. It goes against something fundamental in our natures. And this, then, is the human tragedy—that the common humanity we share is fundamentally based on the denial of a common shared humanity.

Kig-Yar didn't think like humans, though. They'd tried imperial culture once and decided it wasn't for them. Maybe they were right: humans were constantly in denial about their ape-sized social circles, always pretending they could think on a global scale when history proved every time that they really couldn't.

Personality shots," her roommates used to call the first drinks of the night. Liquid courage. Whatever you called it, the point was to turn off the voice in your head that reminded you of everything wrong in your life.

The addict's credo: It's always somebody else's fault.

out by opioids or willful denial. It was like her emotional maturation had stopped the second she'd swallowed that first Oxycontin.

If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are.

Some Other Dude Did It

purely negative approach

Perseus wore a magic cap so that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over our own eyes and ears so as to deny that there are any monsters.

Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!

No man easily admits that he is afraid.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.

All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.