Denial Quotes - Page 20

• It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

  Susan Glaspell

  Hell, Suppression

  Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook (1921). “Plays”

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• Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

  David Hume

  Self, Virtue, Self-denial

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• Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical denial that Paul authored any of the epistles, Guignebert took both quite seriously.

  Robert M. Price

  Jesus, Historical, Dutch

  "The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief". Book by Tom Flynn, 2007.

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• Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from reality in which contact with reality becomes ever thinner, ever more fragmentary. It is impossible to remove oneself totally from suffering, unless one removes oneself from life itself, no longer enters into relationships, makes oneself invulnerable.

  Dorothee Solle

  Acceptance, Reality, Suffering

  Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press

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• pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

  Audre Lorde

  Erotic, Feelings, Suppression

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.54, Crossing Press

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• nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Truth, Situation, Denying The Truth

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• We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Mean, Eye

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• I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

  Gloria Allred

  War, Rights, Years

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• Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

  George MacDonald

  Self, Next, Sides

  George Macdonald (2016). “Sir Gibbie”, p.30, George Macdonald

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• Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.

  John Hart

  Mind, Weapons, Junkie

  John Hart (2010). “The King of Lies”, p.72, Macmillan

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• Great repressions create dualities.

  Anais Nin

  Duality, Repression

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• When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Self, Soul, Austerity

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.133

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• Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

  James Anthony Froude

  Nature, Self, Austerity

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.24

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• Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Spring, Sacrifice, Self

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.171

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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. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Mistake, Real

  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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• Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Bears, Stout, Sturdy

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• Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Trying, Doe

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Religion, Self-denial

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

  George Eliot

  Motherhood, Vanity, Self

  George Eliot (1876). “Scenes of clerical life”, p.267

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• There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Real, Self, Discipline

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• Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in.

  Carol Leifer

  Mean, Boys, Play

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• What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.

  Dora Russell

  Children, Business, Work

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• Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying, Sleep, Dust

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• We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.

  Christopher Alexander

  Loss, Men, Intellectual

  Christopher Alexander (1964). “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• ... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Self, Hardship, Delight

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