Denial Quotes - Page 2

We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud.

Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.

When will I realize that without God my world is draped in shadows between which there is not a single ray of light? And when will I recognize that with God, my world is deluged in light between which there is not a single thread of darkness?

There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it's continued effects on us won't "just go away". That's our breakthrough moment. It's the sun coming out to warm the seeds of hope so they can grow our personal garden of empowerment ~ Jeanne McElvaney

...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.

You shall discuss dreams, not deny!

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.

I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of people’s minds, all of the bits of life that lay dormant until the babblings of televisions and nursing homes sweep them away. It makes me wonder how many of the dreams we had originally have already been forgotten.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.


Ignorance is bliss. Denial is the reaction to a painful truth.

Time is denial's mortal enemy and is always victorious against it.

... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.

There's nothing we fear more than our own Reflection. We scream at the monsters within us, hidden deep within our hearts. We run and hide from the terrors all around us- the different mirrors that we see.

It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist.

The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.

It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.

She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality.
The second stage of ignorance is delusion, or the refusal to acknowledge reality.
The third stage of ignorance is the rejection of altruism.