Denial Quotes - Page 18

• All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Regret, Stress, Sadness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.61, New World Library

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

  Tim Minchin

  Honesty, Views, Belief

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• The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

  Dan Brown

  Stress, Reality, Ego

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf

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• Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

  Dan Brown

  Morning, Block, Stress

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf

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• Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

  James Patterson

  Egypt, Rivers

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• Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial.

  Liane Moriarty

  Giving Up, Wine, Jam

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• In love at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial — I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible?
  Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. For love is most free and at the same time most bound. If God were absolutely free there would be no creation. The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Strong, Love Is

  "The Complete Works of Rabindranath Tagore".

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• There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils. Our failure to successfully enforce these laws is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Colombia. I haven't even included the harm to young people. It's absolutely disgraceful to think of picking up a 22-year-old for smoking pot. More disgraceful is the denial of marijuana for medical purposes.

  Milton Friedman

  Marijuana, Thinking, Years

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• We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Spiritual, Heart, Voice

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• only a matter of time before it broke through our fragile web of denial, forcing us to confront the truth and acknowledge who we are: two people in love – a love that nobody else could possibly understand.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Two, People, Who We Are

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Self, Discipline

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• He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

  William Gurnall

  Waiting, Patient, Mercy

  William Gurnall (2008). “Extracts from the Writings of William Gurnall”, p.96, Scripture Truth

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• From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on fillers, as if what we have, what we are, is not enough. We have a cultural tendency toward denial, but being affluent, we strangle ourselves with what we can buy. We gave only to look at the houses we build to see how we build *against* space, the way we drink against pain and loneliness. We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Pain, Loneliness, Pie

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• Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

  Arthur Koestler

  Creativity, Self, Empathy

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• Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.

  Bell Hooks

  Girl, Fate, Thinking

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• DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Family, Faith, Daughter

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

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• A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.

  Pamela Anderson

  Pain, Struggle, Interesting

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• 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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Revenge, Doe, Affliction

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• To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I mean that in the abstract. I had become acutely aware of people around me who appears to have the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, but as long as they didn't identify with me, I was in no rush to identify with them. My situation allowed, if not complete denial, at least a thick padding of insulation.

  Michael J. Fox

  Mean, Long, People

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• Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Responsibility, Criticism

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• The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the governed, powers that made oppression possible, powers that it began to exercise in 1774 in response to colonial denial of them. The Revolution came about not to overthrow tyranny, but to prevent it.

  Edmund Morgan

  Exercise, Government, History

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• Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Patience, Self, Bears

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.854, e-artnow

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• If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

  Richard Rohr

  People, Trying, Resistance

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.27, John Wiley & Sons

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• To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is difficult, but it is really all that is expected. What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.

  Roxane Gay

  Mean, Acceptance, Doe

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches clients to live harmoniously with others and it enhances Existential consciousness, and allows people to take responsibility for their effects on the world at large. For me , happiness is about appreciating what one has. Practically speaking,this means lowering expectations about what is fair, possible and likely. It means,finding pleasure in the ordinary.

  Mary Pipher

  Moving, Mean, Responsibility

  Mary Pipher (2009). “Letters to a Young Therapist: Stories of Hope and Healing”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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