Denial Quotes

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

Life, Home, Gratitude

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Mark Twain

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
J. Donald Walters

Peace, Trying, Find

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Ambrose Bierce

Truth, Doubt, May

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

Reality, Accept, Selective

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Silence, Though, Either

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Delay, Deadliest

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
Christopher Hitchens

Time, Light, Lovely

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.
Bill Hicks

Through, Thanks, Beneath

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Frank Herbert

Angry, Self, Him

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould

Life, Hope, Few

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

Experience, Until, Outside

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
Javier Bardem

Truth, Live, Anymore

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
Boy George

Great, Insecurity, Big

Hope is the denial of reality.
Margaret Weis

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

Woman, Times, Image

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Sense, Highly, Developed

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.
Isaiah Berlin

Men, Human, Control

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Performer, Highly, Denies

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
Jonathan Sacks

Freedom, True, Justice

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
Germaine Greer

Life, Nothing, Everything

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
Simon Wiesenthal

Home, Parents, Silence

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.
Edwin Louis Cole

God, Sin, Possession

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.
David Geffen

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.
Ani DiFranco

Live, Made, Year

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
Christopher Lasch

Smile, Realistic, Symbol

I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
David Attenborough

Balance, Growth, Stuff

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
Zoe Saldana

Courage, Face, Ourselves

Debate is so much better than denial.
Julie Walters

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
Charles Bradlaugh

Free, Speech, Abuse

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