Top 110 Denial Quotes

Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks’ managements and shareholders. It’s because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all.

The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing ‘beloved’ individuals to continue their heinous behavior must be jettisoned from the bottom of our souls.

The Saudi government’s denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia’s economic development, modernization and prosperity.

Acknowledging that there’s something you desire, not going after it, and deciding that, ‘You know what, it’s fine; I’ll just focus on what I do have, make myself a ham sandwich, and call it a day,’ isn’t happiness. It’s denial.

People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, ‘Oh, its temporary.’ It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That’s how they work.

Some women are convinced that they are the same size they were 20 years ago. They also wear clothes that are too big in an effort to hide their body. Both cases are unflattering and work against your body. Some women are in denial about changing.

I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it… accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.

The planet is heating; the climate is changing. We know this. We have not just one scientist, or two, but thousands screaming this at us at the top of their lungs. And we have a government full of disinterested, stubborn people who are going to cling to their denial and their nonsense.

Climate change denial, anti-vaccination proponents, creationist teachers, faith healers, fake bomb detector peddlers, psychic frauds, alternative medicine pushers… we need scientific thinking. We need a generation of kids who think an experiment is more important than a preconceived notion or an argument from authority.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Somehow, I’m in denial about being desirable. But every time my wife tells me to shave or cut my hair or clean up my look, I playfully boast to her that I’m the most desirable man!

I’m actually a very private person. Sometimes I’m in denial that I’m really famous.

Denial is a very powerful thing.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it’s really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial – arguably the first stage of a nation’s decline.

Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

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.

There’s a two-tier justice system. And anyone who denies it is either naive or in denial. This is what the reality of America is. If you have certain privileges, if you’re from a certain socioeconomic status, you have a certain skin color, the odds are in your favor.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

I think denial’s fascinating. It’s a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

Haters are fans in denial.

There’s a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality – knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don’t know how many chapters are left in your book – is by living in denial.

The military is a path of the unknown. I wasn’t in denial about the risk.

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial – in order for me to get work done.

Look at every show on television; it’s derivative of another show that came before it. It was only a matter of time. So all you ‘Mentalist’ fans, it’s okay to like the show, but don’t be in denial of where it came from. Friday nights, U.S.A., basic cable-style baby.

You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay. But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.

Delusion and denial does not equal an apology.

Denial is huge for any alcoholic, especially for a functioning alcoholic, because I – you know, I’m not living under a bridge. I haven’t been arrested.

I believe we’re all in denial about the people we love.

The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism.

My work is about the behaviors that we all engage in unconsciously on a collective level. And what I mean by that, it’s the behaviors that we’re in denial about and the ones that operate below the surface of our daily awareness. And as individuals, we all do these things, all the time, every day.

Don’t be in denial. Police misconduct is nothing new, but the technology we have to capture it is. Nearly everyone is now equipped with a smartphone with a camera, so these incidents are more readily caught on film.

Irrationality may be more prevalent in the party of climate denial, but it isn’t limited to Republicans.

I’m not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, ‘Son, you’re handless,’ because I couldn’t fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.

The Great Society wanted to make America look like a country in which Little Rock could never have happened. It failed because it was a venture in denial rather than in realistic social transformation.

Denial, panic, threats, anger – those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

Disinformation is more than just lying: it’s the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of the world.

I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I’m glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.

In one way, 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.

For voters whose work schedule does not allow them to wait in line to vote, the denial of vote by mail and early voting denies the opportunity to vote altogether.

I am camp. Lots of gay men can’t cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

In the case of ‘Chernobyl,’ we’re telling a story of a government that runs on lies the way cars run on fuel, and there are people who ultimately end up paying the price for those lies – and a certain culture of denial is in place, and the degradation of expertise is in place.

There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon – I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today’s younger workers.

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can’t reply to your smile. It’s a denial of identity.

This is in us: a certain sense of denial, a certain sense of groupthink. This is not something that sits on one party line or the other. We’ve seen it in all permutations throughout history, and at the core of it is a certain insistence that what we want to be true is now true, and what we don’t like is now false.

For me, for a very long time, I was in denial because when you say you’re sad or you’re overwhelmed, we consider it whining or complaining. People say, ‘Count your blessings,’ and it’s like, ‘Yeah, I am, but I’m still sad. Something is wrong with me.’ I had to acknowledge it.