Quotes About Denial

"Life is a beautiful denial to belief in death".

Every person who denies the truth is a coward who doesn't want to admit the truth

The lie at the heart of that bad faith was the desperate attempt to avoid facing the implications of the plain and utterly unwelcome fact that there is no way to make a middle-class lifestyle sustainable

Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse.

George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don't have to believe it if I don't want to.

She was immovable and denied, in teh face of the week's passing, that a two-and-a-half-day job had become a seven-day obsession. She was the grotesque adult embodiment of that properly despised schoolboy creature of fretful, incontinent ambition, a swot.

You're hurt because everything is changed. Jimmy is hurt because everything is the same. And neither of you can face it. Something's gone wrong somewhere, hasn't it?

It's so much easier when one faces facts, but then all life is largely based on an avoidance of fact, and I admit I try to avoid them. I

God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn't just happen to Him. He chose it as the way to create and perfect the church. Now He calls us to choose suffering. That is, He calls us to take up our cross and follow Him on the Calvary road and deny ourselves and make sacrifices for the sake of ministering to the church and presenting His sufferings to the world.

Relativism, as we saw in the previous chapter, undermines that effort. It kidnaps the happy handmaiden of truth and makes her serve the pride and pleasure of pragmatists. Relativists don't pursue truth. They make the denial of truth serve them.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see." (Ayn Rand)

a.) Jesus will deny that He ever claimed to be the Son of God; b.) Jesus will "espouse the cause of the Mahdi" and will "follow him"; c.) Jesus will serve "Allah Almighty"; and d.) Jesus will slaughter those on the earth who remain faithful to His words in the Bible.

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

There are times when it's easier to fool yourself than swallow some jagged piece of reality.

First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of the truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

Despite their age difference-Pope Julius was sixty; Michelangelo, thirty-and their similarily contentious temperaments, neither man could believe that anything he passionately wanted would be denied him.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

And so, like many others, their honeymoon was a failure; yet they would not admit this to themselves, and they did not realize the significance of the failure until long afterward.

I've never wanted to admit it to myself," he said with something like tranquillity, "but you really do hate me, don't you, Edith?

For a people may endure an almost incredible series of the darkest failures without breaking; but give them respite and some hope for the future, and they may not endure an unexpected denial of that hope.

Kate refused to go to bed - for if she slept, she would have to wake up, she said, and that she could not bear to do-to face afresh the grief she was as yet so little used to.

What we cannot admit in ourselves we often find in others. If a person--who speaks of another person whom he hates with a vengeance that seems nearly irrational--can be brought to describe the characteristics which he most dislikes, you will frequently have a picture of his own repressed aspects which are unrecognized to him though obvious to others. -June Singer

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

Chickens have a twenty-minute memory. We primates cope through booze and denial. Dial up more of that denial part, you'll last longer.