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Quotes About Denial

Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?
~ Bob Inglis
Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.
~ Terry Pratchett, Mort
Real 'imaan' is faith in humanity, so those who deny goodness are kafirs.
~ Asghar Ali Engineer
Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.
~ Rajneesh
Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?
~ Betty Ford
Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.
~ Bill Hicks
I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
The other day I ... no wait, that wasn't me.
~ Steven Wright
You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
~ Stephen King, The Dark Half
Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid!
~ John Grisham
He was so drunk that he would have stubbornly denied that he was.
~ Filippo Bologna, The Parrots
Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression?
~ Kat Lowe, Dream Cat
Hello little one. Did you know you're on private property?""Really? I had no idea." Meryn fudged. He raised an eyebrow. "The ten foot fence right behind you didn't give it away?
~ Alanea Alder, My Commander
Uh, yeah - how about a warm hell no to that request? Does that work for you? Because it works for me.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn't mean to. And I didn't kill her, kill her.""Oh, I see. As long as you didn't kill her, kill her, then that's okay.
~ Karen Marie Moning, Iced
So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms."I'm not fallen, " he said roughly."Then what are you?"He shrugged. "Busted.
~ Vicki Pettersson, The Taken
Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.
~ Paul Tillich
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
~ Carl Jung
So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.
~ Helen Keller
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
~ Demosthenes
The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.
~ Alain-René Lesage
One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.
~ Tony Robbins