Quotes About Denial

People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

I would always sneak in the refrigerator and eat seconds, and underneath my bed - you know, I had my own bedroom - it was littered with Twinkie wrappers and Jolly Rancher wrappers. And I would sneak-eat, because I was denied food, not because I was hungry, but because my mom and dad did the best they could in 1970 and '71 and '72.

When I was married to an abuser, he'd tell me he wouldn't have to get so angry if only I'd be less demanding, more supportive, more understanding. I hid the truth from everyone, especially myself.

Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.

To say 'I quit' brings a lot of criticism, but to get disqualified and say the ref was unfair and harsh, in denial - fans will jump on that.

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

You have strength born of years of grief and anger... The strength of a man denied revenge.

All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying.

Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.

At its core, 'Spring Awakening' is about the perils of miscommunication and what happens when people are denied a voice.

I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir.

When a political party denies scientific facts, then by all means, they should be called out on their anti-science stance.

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.

Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

I don't know man, I didn't do it.

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities

When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.