Denial Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Bears, Stout, Sturdy

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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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• 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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• Great repressions create dualities.

  Anais Nin

  Duality, Repression

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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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• 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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• It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Children, Father, Son

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1905). “The Story of a Literary Career”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

  Jane Fonda

  Survival, Sometimes, Pathology

  Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

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• Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

  Lord Acton

  Self, Political, Economy

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• Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

  David Hume

  Self, Virtue, Self-denial

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• It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  History, Culture, Forget

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• 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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• 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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• Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.

  Ellen G. White

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Self

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated”, p.264, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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• 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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• 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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• Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Money, Exercise, Self

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• It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

  Julian Sanchez

  Religious, Order, Ideas

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