Quotes About Denial

Atheist's denial of God's existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist's claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God's existence.

Riddler: You want to tell me who you killed and why? Catwoman: We didn't kill anyone Poisson Ivy: Well, not yesterday

There's so much going on here, and out there, and places we don't even know about. Everything's so scary and uncertain. We never know when fate will shake it all up. That's pretty deep. You gotta wonder how we'll ever make it through. I guess we can fall back on what's gotten us this far. A positive attitude and lots of denial?

Natural selection has a new aspect, one that is psychological denial. Such denial where the "individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, which he is apart, suffers".

In practice, you can't be a modern Republican in good standing unless you deny the reality of global warming, assert that it has natural causes, or insist that nothing can be done about it without destroying the economy. You also have to either accept or acquiesce in wild claims that the overwhelming evidence for climate change is a hoax, that it has been fabricated by a vast global conspiracy of scientists. Why

Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously declared; but in modern America a lot of people do believe that they're entitled to their own facts.

Then since we mortal lovers are, Ask not how long our love will last; But while it does, let us take care Each minute be with pleasure past: Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die?

Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.

This whole fucking country's got it great and doesn't even know it. Why? Because the price for having it so great gets paid somewhere else, by somebody else, where you don't have to see it. Out of sight, out of mind. That's the fucking key to the whole shit system. Stay blind, stay deaf.

nothing is more indicative of a war going badly than valiant propaganda ... Anything officially denied was probably a fact.

If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified, she went on. That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

There is none so blind as the one who does not want to see.

It is better to live than to die, and peace is better than war, and though there are some who deny this as robbers do, the truth remains what it is.

One in four men said women would need some convincing in order for sex to happen; this was not twenty or thirty years ago, mind you: this was 2016. Those perception gaps are a setup not only for assault- out of unexamined entitlement, if not flat-out ill will- but also for boys' subsequent denial of responsibility and, quite possibly, their claims of false accusation.

There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.

But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again.

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.

People have an amazing ability to cope with the madness of life. It's called denial. It'll take you a good mile, but only if life's horrors stay on the page of the newspaper where they belong.

People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry.

At this point there were good days, good weeks, when we pretended that it was acceptable that Jack had lived at all, that his life had been, in its truncated way, complete. This wasn't one of those days.