Quotes About Denial

Those who deny the reality of evil do so because it proves the reality of good and the reality of good proves an objective morality

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

You've got an in-love feeling, but the relationship is damaging. When do you stop calling it love?

Anytime I was denying my inner self, I knew absolutely nothing.

Just because you deny facts and science doesn't mean they aren't true

At the core of the heart of an atheist is a heart that doesn't deny the existence, sovereignty and power of God but it chooses deliberately not to believe it for a long while.

Denying yourself a life of personal freedom is denying yourself of a life worth living.

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.

Structures of lines, surfaces, forms, colours. They try to approach the eternal, the inexpressible above men. They are a denial of human egotism. They are the hatred of human immodesty, the hatred of images, of paintings... Wisdom (is) the feeling for the coming reality, the mystical, the definite indefinite, the greatest definite.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

I, his mistress, mad with grief, shall follow him...I shall share his glory. You speak of widowhood and deny me the white gown - the mourning of queens.

She denied herself the luxury and beauty that kill reverie. Love too. Once upon a time love had placed her on earth and kept her there with the grip of a wrestler who is used to pinning huskies to the mat.

There is nothing less scientific than to deny something because it cannot be explained.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Never," he said, laughing.

Self-deceit is the hardest habit to break cuz it tells us we ain't self-deceived.

There's no overestimating our ability to avoid making eye contact with the obvious.

The word 'citizen' confers rights, rights that are invisible, that really appear only when they are denied... You live in a racial state that formally denies difference, but in practice avows it, through the barrel of a gun or the conferring of papers.

Resegregation grows not from white ignorance, but from white refusal and denial. And so half a century after the perk of the civil rights movement, the nation has moved again into crisis.

And how easy this mechanism is to see in others! Can we see it in ourselves? That is the question. Who are your scapegoats? What do you reject in others that you secretly reject in yourself? Weakness? Failure? Fear? Homosexuality? Violence? What thoughts and feelings do you not admit in yourself, in order to hold up to the world an image of who you are?

Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist? Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you!

The world we are a part of now is difficult to accept, unimaginably difficult. I don't know if I accept everything even now. I don't know how I can. But acceptance moves past denial, and maybe there's a defiance in that, too.

He who denies sex is a filthy person who smears in the lowest way his own parents who have begotten him