Quotes About Denial

When we dismiss or deny the hopes of others, she thought, we forget that they, like us, have only one chance in this life.

The more that people are in the wrong, she thought, the louder their protestations on being brought to book.

love was a form of blindness that closed the eyes to the most glaring faults. You could love a murderer, and simply not believe that your lover would do so much as crush a tick, let alone kill somebody. There would be no point trying to dissuade her.

I was deliberately southern African. Not in a good or easy way. There is no getting around the fact that there had been so much awful violence to get me here; my people had engaged in such terrible acts of denial and oppression; I so obviously did not look Africa; and yet here I still was.

Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.

If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own

The idea that there might be limits to growth is for many people impossible to imagine. Limits are politically unmentionable and economically unthinkable. The culture tends to deny the possibility of limits by placing a profound faith in the powers of technology, the workings of a free market, and the growth of the economy as the solution to all problems, even the problems created by growth.

What makes you think I didn't really mean no?" "Well, for one, you're awfully worked up over the guy. In that she-doth-protest-too-much kind of way.

Some relationships in life just seem to be inevitable and happen when they happen. I have never understood people who choose to spend their entire life being in denial about someone they love. I'd rather go through the divorce again than to not have you or Shane.

female health issues stem from "denial of the self and rejecting femininity";

That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say no in any of them.

exploring how the denial of Black reproductive autonomy serves the interests of white supremacy.

In Chapter 1, I describe the exploitation of slave women's capacity to produce more slaves and the denial of their rights as mothers. After Emancipation, racism continued to corrupt notions of reproductive liberty, helping to direct the birth control movement which emerged early in this century.

Mark Finley, San Fransisco. We--as homosexuals--have been systematically denied our own history. Our own past. Perhaps that's why we're so eager to embrace a martyr, even when she's made of glass?

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

By playing these games about "arbitrary" gender roles, we have not succeeded in outlawing masculinity, but we have robbed it of much of its vocabulary. There are not very many acceptable ways to speak "masculine" anymore. We are all in denial, and the results are not pretty.

So listening carefully is what I was taught all my life. When people don't listen, it's not that they don't learn, they just deny themselves tremendous opportunities and glorious choices." Steven Spielberg

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

Were all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

On at least four separate occasions and recorded in the four Gospels the Lord Jesus called His disciples to deny their soul life, deliver it to death, and then to follow Him.

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?