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Quotes About Denial

denial. It rose up out of him, and rushed towards her. He came at her with all his power, all his Skills, all
~ S.F. Said
A?k muhakkak ki bir hastal?k... A??k oldu?umuzu ilk zamanlarda kendimizden bile saklamak istememiz zaten bunun bir hastal?k oldu?unu gösteriyor... Biz mütemadiyen: De?ilim, de?ilim!.. diyoruz. Ve onu ancak, kolumuzu k?m?ldatamayacak kadar bize hakim oldu?u zaman kabul ediyoruz.
~ Sabahattin Ali
What is Atheism? In itself nothing; a denial of a positive idea. Every negation involves a position. And if every positive idea be a reality, a negation is nothing.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
essentially limited. In the long term, if you deny
~ Sadhguru
Se você enfia uma faca de 20cm em minhas costas e puxa 10cm para fora, isso não é progresso. Se você puxa-la inteira para fora, ainda não seria progresso. O progresso é curar a ferida que o golpe fez. Ainda nem começaram a remover a faca. Eles nem admitem que a faca está lá
~ Malcolm X
Diverting a river is easier than facing the truth; Cyrus did not want to acknowledge the fact that his horse would not have drowned if he had not forced it to try and cross the river.
~ Marcelo Figueras
a worldwide flood destroyed all life on earth about five thousand years ago requires denying an immense amount of generally accepted knowledge—from astronomy, physics, geology, paleontology, anthropology, archaeology, biology, cave paintings, and more.
~ Marcus J. Borg
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
See, says he, you who deny a providence, how many have been saved by their prayers to the Gods. Ay, says Diagoras, I see those who were saved, but where are those painted who were shipwrecked
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
~ Margaret Atwood
What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.
~ Margaret Atwood
We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
~ Margaret Atwood
You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.
~ Margaret Atwood
Such a cruel thing, memory. We can't remember what it is that we've forgotten. That we have been made to forget. That we've had to forget, in order to pretend to live here in a normal way.
~ Margaret Atwood
I didn't want to identify the body, or see it at all. If you don't see the body, it's easier to believe nobody's dead.
~ Margaret Atwood
It's like Janine, though, to take it upon herself, to decide the baby's flaws were due to her alone. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
~ Margaret Atwood
We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
~ Margaret Atwood
Everybody knew. Nobody admitted to knowing. If other people began to discuss it, you tuned them out, because what they were saying was both so obvious and so unthinkable.
~ Margaret Atwood
There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None of them were the men we knew.
~ Margaret Atwood
But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning.
~ Margaret Atwood
It's like Janine, though, to take it upon herself, to decide the baby's flaws were due to her alone. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.   One
~ Margaret Atwood
But I know this isn't true. It is just passing the buck, as children do, to mothers. I've mourned for her already. But I will do it again, and again.
~ Margaret Atwood
people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
~ Margaret Atwood
You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.
~ Margaret Heffernan