Quotes About Denial

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into

There is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like truth at all because it carries responsibility.

The entire world is falling apart because nobody will admit they are wrong.

You know how it is. After a time, something that's happened, even if it isn't very nice, if you just don't talk about it, it sort of goes away. Not that you forget about it, not really, but it isn't there any more.' Brunetti recognized the familiarity of this, and Vianello said, 'It's the only way life can go on, really, if you think about it.

Her death was my fault. Other people have always been a little too quick to assure me that it wasn't; and yes, only a kid, who could have known, terrible accident, rotten luck, could have happened to anyone, it's all perfectly true and I don't believe a word of it.

People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn't want to see.

There's a difference between seeking the truth and being willfully ignorant,

That's why I refused. But after the media

We may be very sure that men fall in private long before they fall in public. They are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world. Like Peter, they first disregard the Lord's warning to watch and pray; and then, like Peter, their strength is gone, and in the hour of temptation they deny their Lord. The world takes notice of their fall, and scoffs loudly. But the world knows nothing of the real reason.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame. His salvation was that he lived in denial.

It was so long in the past that it should not have mattered, but it did. It did. Once he had realized that these words and words like them were the truth, once they had broken through his defensive barrier of denial, then they became a part of him, burning their way into his soul.

It seems to me that maybe It pretty much always means, no

many people who come to spiritual practice are frightened by their feelings. They hope meditation will help them to transcend the messiness of the world and leave them invulnerable to difficult feelings. But this is a false transcendence, a denial of life. It is fear masquerading as wisdom.

We could live, but they won't let us."]

I think my body knew before my mind did. Or maybe I just refused to listen to what I knew.

My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.

Animals are luckier; they can bury their heads in sand, hide under their coats, pretend to have no head at all.

Denying God is admiting your ignorance.

Denying God is the greatest sign of ungratefulness.

Rocky had refused to meet with her family over the holidays. "I just can't. Not this year. I refuse to pretend that I am celebrating anything," she told them.

Maybe this was the moment when I knew I was part of a long line of almost erased stories. A child of denial. Of magical thinking.

She had seen expert methods of flirtation and temptation, not to mention last-minute flip of denial. What men liked to call a tease. What they loved to call a tease. They stomped and growled about it, but they always hung around for more.

I don't deny anything until I know," was the response. "I don't know that there is a supernatural force; therefore," and he shrugged his slender, stooping shoulders, "I work only from a material basis. If this manuscript states facts, then