Denial Quotes

The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

That which is denied cannot be healed.

Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.

As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.

A lot of them complain because they say the word denial puts them in the same bin as holocaust deniers. That's too bad. But the thing is, they do have something in common: a denial of evidence and of scientific consensus.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

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.

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

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial is the natural response. But the longer we wait, the bigger the response required.

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

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

God's delay's are not His denials

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own

It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know that you must do.

There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.

Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.

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

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love

I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.

In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

Hope is the denial of reality.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.