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Quotes About Denial

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death.
~ Wes Fesler
Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.
~ Sarah Dessen
Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Failures are part of life, but most people deny their persuasion due to fear of failure.
~ Unknown
Turning your back on your problems doesn't solve them, it only delays them.
~ Unknown
Sometimes you have to think, in just one single moment every thing can start to sink. In just a blink of an eye you will realize it wasn't what you thought it was it was all just lies. I thought you would always be here by my side now I'm left denied with no pride.
~ Unknown
You already know the answers of your questions. But the answers bring pain, that's why you choose not to believe them
~ Unknown
Taking your life is just an excuse to run away from your problems. Permanently.
~ Unknown
He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!
~ Monty Python
The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow.
~ Unknown
There is no such thing as change, but I would describe it as an alteration.'' Change implies transformation, if humanity has instincts and impulses how can we deny the very things that make us human.'' If change implies transformation wouldn't that mean we have no impulses and instincts.
~ Unknown
You can accept the truth now or later, but you can't run from it forever.
~ Unknown
I can't do this anymore. Pretend that everything's great. Act like there's nothing to hate. Wipe away every tear. Run away from my fears. Talk like everything's okay. Live like there's nothing wrong with today.
~ Unknown
Every time I say I'm not tired, I end up being tired.
~ Unknown
At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about, We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action and action requires courage. We say we don't know what's wrong, when we do know; we just wish we didn't.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
The only people who are mad at you for speaking the truth are people who are living a lie. Keep speaking the truth.
~ Unknown
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
~ Unknown
Gilberte belonged, during those years at least, to the most widespread variety of human ostriches, the kind that bury their heads not in the hope of not being seen, which they consider highly improbable, but in the hope of not seeing that they can be seen, which seems to them something to the good and enables them to leave the rest to chance.
~ Marcel Proust
it has indeed been said that the highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist, who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
~ Marcel Proust
Já se disse até que o mais alto louvor a Deus reside na negação do ateu, que considera a Criação tão perfeita que dispensa um criador.
~ Marcel Proust
An artist has no need to express his thought directly in a work for the work to reflect its quality; it has even been said the highest praise of God is to be found in the denial of him by the atheist, who considers creation to be perfect enough to dispense with a creator.
~ Marcel Proust