Denial Quotes - Page 9

• 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

  Rights, Law, Justice

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• The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.

  Martin Amis

  Light, Air, Ideas

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• The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Suicidal, Pay

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• I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Regret, Excess

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• In one was, 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. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Light, Giving, Lovely

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it causes. Mothers can turn you invisible with neglect. They can erase you with a denial, a refusal to see. Friends can deceive you. People lie. It is a cold, hard world. I do not blame Nell Hawkins for retreating from it into a madness of her own choosing.

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Hurt, Pain

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• 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.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Century, Function, Employers

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• No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god." "Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny.

  Terry Pratchett

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Terry Pratchett (1996). “Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld”, Harper Prism

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• underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

  David Levithan

  Nice

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.170, Penguin

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• Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Evil, Needs

  Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.289, Souvenir Press

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• Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Strong, Self

  "Love is a Stranger".

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• There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying, Reading, Writing

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• …I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.

  William Faulkner

  Lying, Thinking, Light

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Ambition, Self, Anxiety

  Lucy Maud Montgomery, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) (1989). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.347, Scholastic Inc.

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• Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Turkeys, Environmental

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.42, Seven Stories Press

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• Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Mean, Responsibility, Self

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.156, SUNY Press

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• The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self, Tragedy, Poor

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.185, Courier Corporation

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• Denial is an ugly thing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Ugly Things, Ugly

  Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks (2013). “Three Weeks With My Brother”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not those seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. The time is long past — if indeed it ever existed — when we should permit the noble concept of states' rights to be betrayed.

  Robert Kennedy

  Past, Rights, Long

  "America the Beautiful".

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• when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions lift their heads, it's hard to tell the air from the impurities in our human eyes, as if the sinking climbing paisley curlicues of grit were part of the element itself, rain, spores, tears, film, dirt. Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more then the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.

  Martin Amis

  Rain, Eye, Climbing

  Martin Amis (2010). “Money”, p.72, Random House

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• Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.

  Cesar Millan

  Lying, Animal, Mind

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• He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Past, Anxiety

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.96, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

  James E. Faust

  Doubt, Divinity, Possibility

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• But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

  T. S. Eliot

  Discipline, Political, Relaxation

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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