Quotes About Denial

It [this book] aims to confront the violence implicit in U.S. society from the moment of its conception, and the various narratives and forces that have taken shape to deny the consequences of that violence by popularizing and commercializing it.

The affirmation of democracy requires the denial of colonialism, but denying it does not make it go away.

No, because I am not a ventriloquist.

The only way I could go on living was to believe I was not living.

Raquela stood at her side. "Your baby was stillborn. But you're all right." The mother screamed, "Even this they deny me! They take away my land. My freedom. Now my baby. Let me die. I want to die.

I knew I was dead, even if my parents didn't notice.

Information about toxicity in food is widely available, but people don't want to hear it.

There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.

What is it to be God's elect? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age.

Over time, she'd come to believe that the only true emotional infirmity was denial; once a thing was accepted, it could be met without fear. She wished she could tell him that it was no weakness

Harry, who meant the world to him, and who the world would deny him. Harry, whom he loved.

A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.

This was a species with an exceptional ability to ignore its approaching doom.

If your denial of death is sufficiently explicit and persuasive that you believe death isn't real, then what you deny isn't death but the significance of life.

Religion is nothing more than bad concepts held in place of good ones for all time. It is denial - at once full of hope and full of fear - of the vastitude of human ignorance.

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

When it comes to success, it will come when it comes. A delay does not mean a denial.