Denial Quotes

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  Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

  Isaac Asimov

  Way, Problem, Deny

  Isaac Asimov (1972). “The Gods Themselves”

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

  Bill Watterson

  Life, Success, Beautiful

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• The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Fear, Lying

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• That which is denied cannot be healed.

  Brennan Manning

  Healed, Denied

  Brennan Manning, John Blase (2011). “All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir”, p.30, David C Cook

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• The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

  John Bunyan

  Destruction, Precipice

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• A right delayed is a right denied.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Rights, Rejection

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• Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Truth, People, Facts

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• I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

  Eve Ensler

  Lying, Thinking, Facts

  "Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Cover Ups, May

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.15, Open Court Publishing

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• Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy has been sufficiently eroded by the presence within her of the embryo she brought to term. Her unthinking ability to reproduce, which is her pride, is, since it is beyond choice, not a specific virtue of her own.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Pride, Ideas

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• The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

  Richard Bach

  Lying, Lies We Tell Ourselves, One Line

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• Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.

  Howard Sasportas

  House, Way, Showing Up

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• The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.

  Daniel Dennett

  Art, Mistake, Mind

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.

  Alexis Carrel

  Brother, Prayer, Men

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• Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Procrastination, Political, Delay

  The Law of Delay ch. 13 (1971)

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• Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Church, Essentials

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• The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Events, Conflict, Psychological

  "Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror". Book by Judith Lewis Herman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 1992.

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• Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

  Annie Besant

  Believe, Ignorance, Absurd

  Annie Besant (1890). “Why I Became a Theosophist”

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• Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• [P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Justification

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.185, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on

  Douglas MacArthur

  Moving, Optimism, Faces

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• What state do you live in? Denial.

  Bill Watterson

  States

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• Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Self, Virtue, Chastity

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Virtues and Vice"

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