Denial Quotes - Page 15

• The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our faith, to our self-denial, to our delight in duty. Other evidence than this the Bible knows not God has not given.

  Gardiner Spring

  Humility, Acceptance, Self

  Gardiner Spring (1819). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.53

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• I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Thinking, Flames, World

  "Future tense". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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• The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

  Simon Mawer

  Mind, Inability, Faces

  Simon Mawer (2011). “The Gospel Of Judas”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

  Katy Lederer

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, People, Crowds

  Girl's Life Magazine, 2007.

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• With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.

  Ted Nugent

  Party, Feel Good, Abuse

  "Captain McShitpants blasts Matt Damon on Palin". The Christian Science Monitor, September 18, 2008.

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• Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance

  Jackson Pollock

  Memories, Acceptance, Order

  "Abstract Expressionism". Book by David Anfam, p. 121, 1990.

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• The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eagles, Wings, Genius

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• A lot of people that are in the disease of drinking and using can be caught up on the denial aspect of it. I don't have a problem with that. I am very sensitive. I can just feel when things are getting out of control and I go, 'Oh, you have to deal with this. Because you can die.' I've always sort of had that.

  Bobby Lee

  Drinking, People, Disease

  "Bobby Lee On Comedy, Survival And Being ‘A Big, Sweaty Ball Of Flesh’". Interview With Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.

  John Ruskin

  Self, Cities, Rising

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857”, p.124

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• The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Loss, Magic, Possibility

  Shirley MacLaine (1987). “It's all in the playing”, Bantam

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• I think that's part of the whole denial and suicidal mechanism [ of the human's race] right "Oh my God, the house is on fire." You sleep through the smoke.

  Eve Ensler

  Suicidal, Sleep, Thinking

  "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing.

  Miranda Hart

  Embarrassing, I Can

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• Whatever we repress eventually develops aspects of terror.

  Christin Lore Weber

  Aspect, Terror

  Christin Lore Weber (1997). “Circle of Mysteries: The Women's Rosary Book”, p.197, Yes International Publishers

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• Big success requires big sacrifices. Don't find out later that the cost was too high. Denial is said to be even more potent than cocaine; neither drug enhances your marketability.

  K Callan

  Sacrifice, Drug, Cost

  K. Callan (1993). “The Script is finished, now what do I do?.: the scriptwriter's resource book & agent guide”, Sweden Pr

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• Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sacrifice, Self, Self Love

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• Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.

  Susan Forward

  Emotional, Pressure, Pops

  "Toxic Parents". Book by Susan Forward, May 31, 2010.

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• Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society, is charged with how anger is to be appropriately channeled, the denial of anger, or its continuous repression, is a deep source of our psychopathology and will invariably seek its expression in a less healthful fashion.

  James Hollis

  Fashion, Anger, Expression

  James Hollis (2008). “Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves”, p.48, Penguin

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• It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.

  Jo Coudert

  Personality, Creative, Energy

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.15, iUniverse

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• To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely more power than a need accepted.

  Jo Coudert

  Needs, Way, Accepted

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.143, iUniverse

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• The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves, and most people are mad at their parents. You don't have to be in denial to doubt that truths like these will set us free.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Recovery, Simple, Two

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• There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Recovery, Two, World

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• the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Color, Racism, Confusion

  Patricia J. Williams (2016). “Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.

  Lisa Unger

  Heritage, My Family, Inconvenience

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.410, Crown

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• People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

  Mary McMullen

  Believe, People, Innocence

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