Quotes About Denial

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.

After all, there have never been loonies carrying signs saying, "The End is Not Near.

Don't bother explaining—I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

Vrys' First Law: If you deny reality, you must invent a fantasy.

In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of religious fervor, however ridiculous, not realizing that true religion must be according to God's will as the perfect measure; that He can never deny Himself and is no mere spirit form to be changed around according to individual preference.

You see how every thing is denied to free will, for the very purpose of leaving no room for merit. And yet, as the beneficence and liberality of God are manifold and inexhaustible, the grace which he bestows upon us, inasmuch as he makes it our own, he recompenses as if the virtuous acts were our own.

For though in old times there were some, and in the present day not a few are found, who deny the being of a God, yet, whether they will or not, they occasionally feel the truth which they are desirous not to know. We do not read of any man who broke out into more unbridled and audacious contempt of the Deity than C. Caligula, and yet none showed greater dread when any indication of divine wrath was manifested.

How detestable, I ask you, is this madness: that man, finding God in his body and soul a hundred times, on this very pretense of excellence denies that there is a God?

Hell is the denial of the ordinary...

Perhaps, he considered, her hypocrisy had become so ingrained that she was no longer even capable of perceiving it as such.

As long as we blame, as long as we avoid or deny, we remove from the realm of possibility the power to do something about our lives. We become totally dependent upon the ups and downs we create around us.

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry; But where's that wiseman, that would not be I, If she would not deny? Then as th' earth's inward narrow crooked lanes Do purge sea water's fretful salt away, I thought, if I could draw my pains Through rhyme's vexation, I should them allay. Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.

You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.

Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.