Denial Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• What you try to bury just ends up burying you.

  Jane Wagner

  Trying, Ends, Burying

  Jane Wagner (1995). “My Life, So Far: By Edith Ann”, Hyperion

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• Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There's nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn't work because it's escapism in spiritual clothing. It's wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn't want to feel the pain anymore. When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Pain, People

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• You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

  Josephine Tey

  Tin Cans, Tails, Pretending

  Josephine Tey (1998). “The Franchise Affair”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

  Mary McMullen

  Believe, People, Innocence

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never be like that. But they won through step by step, by little bits of wills, little denials of self, little inward victories, by faithfulness in very little things. They became what they are. No one sees these little hidden steps. They only see the accomplishment, but even so, those small steps were taken. There is no sudden triumph, no spiritual maturity. That is the work of the moment.

  Amy Carmichael

  Spiritual, Taken, Maturity

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• American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.

  RuPaul

  Culture, Letters, Neon

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• Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.

  Tim Wise

  Color, White, Long

  Tim Wise (2008). “Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male”, p.28, Soft Skull Press

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• A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Believe, Reality, May

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1922). “Satan: His Personality, Power and Overthrow”

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• Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it.

  Eve Ensler

  Believe, Careers, Political

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• Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Air

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.69

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• To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Mean, Self, Soul

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• But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.

  Cathy Lamb

  Pain, Grief, Loss

  Cathy Lamb (2011). “The First Day of the Rest of My Life”, p.355, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Country, Children, Believe

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