Quotes About Denial

For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

I think O.J. protests too much. Not only did he say he didn't carve the holiday turkey, but he was in the back yard practicing his golf swing the whole time.

It wasn't me!" "It wasn't my kid!" "Whoever

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we should just give up?" Tanis asked, irritably tossing the bark away. "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open," Raistlin answered.

hope is the denial of reality

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater - Tanis Half-elven

Un être grisé de vie ne prévoit pas la mort ; elle n'est pas ; il la nie par chacun de ses gestes.

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists. If death does take him, he is probably unaware of the fact; it amounts to no more for him than a shock or a spasm.

I mean, I knew he'd died but I'd never believed it was permanent

But peace isn't determined by circumstances outside us. Peace stems from forgiveness. Pain doesn't stem from the love we're denied by others, but rather from the love that we deny them.

The return to love is hardly the end of life's adventure.  It's the real beginning.  A course in miracle says we think we have many different problems but we really only have one:  denying love is the only problem and embracing it is the only answer.

Rage turned outward is called rage. Rage turned inward is called ulcers and cancer and things like that. The unhealthiest thing you can do with anger is to deny you have it.

If you deny yourself your own passion, your own path, your own longing, your own drama, your own life force, your own truth—then you might be tempted to live vicariously through those who allow themselves theirs. Your creative energy has got to go somewhere, even if it is projected onto others. You're tempted to live a life of fantasy if you deny yourself a life of truth.

No, that's not possible, Michael said. Killed, yes; jail, no.

Ik zei dat ze gekwetst was omdat ik had ontdekt dat ze ondanks al haar terughoudendheid, grofheden en beledigingen wel degelijk iets voor me voelde. (...) 'Denk je dat? Dat zul je nog wel merken dat dat niet zo is, knulletje.

Some people don't want to be sober. They don't want reality. After life trips them, they choose to stay facedown in the mud.

Never had a general so effectively willed away the facts.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

But sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes we are sad but we don't really know we are sad. So we say we aren't sad. But really we are.