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I believe we're all in denial about the people we love. -- David Geffen
Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial. -- Nora Ephron
I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it. -- Graham Norton
Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about. -- Sharon Salzberg
I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing. -- Miranda Hart
I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. -- David Bowie
I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial. -- Lorraine Bracco
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. -- J. Donald Walters
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government. -- Carl Paladino
Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die. -- Emily Mortimer
I actually believe in denial. -- Nora Ephron
I was steeped in denial, but my body knew. -- Suzanne Finnamore
She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity. -- Fuyumi Ono
was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial? -- Ian Mcewan
Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes. -- Criss Jami
My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears. -- Tupac Shakur
[Donald Trump] has a huge mandate and they're still in denial and do not even know it yet. -- Rush Limbaugh
[Donald Trump] has a huge mandate and they're still in denial and do not even know it yet. -- Rush Limbaugh
I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries. -- Katy Lederer
But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree. -- Eric Jerome Dickey
I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust. -- Noam Chomsky
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. -- Jeanette Winterson
She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one. -- Boy George
Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial. -- Michael Fassbender
There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it. -- Collin Peterson
I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression. -- Carrie Fisher
Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means youâ??re not in denial, youâ??re not pretending, and youâ??re not avoiding. -- Debbie Ford
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. -- J. Donald Walters
Societies have a peculiar way of relating, or more accurately non-relating, to rape maybe because it is so vicious, they choose to live in denial about it. -- Aysha Taryam
Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears. -- Nikki Reed
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. -- Christopher Hitchens
I don't run around feeling infused with positivity, but I'll have to be taking my last breath before I'll admit I'm dying. So I'm either optimistic or in denial. -- Jen Kirkman
Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom. -- Laurence Overmire
I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are inadvertently helping people live not as much in hope as in denial. -- Mark Galli
I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted. -- Emma Watson
Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help. -- Marion Ross
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. -- Stephen Rea
I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on. -- Russell Brand
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside. -- Dean Koontz
I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not." -- Carrie Fisher
I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage. -- Abraham Verghese
But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. -- Timothy Keller
People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong. -- Paul Mooney
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. -- Ayad Akhtar
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
When I found out I was having twins, I mean, I was in denial that I was even pregnant. So when I found out I was having twins, I kind of just laughed and was like, "Of course this would happen." -- Jennifer Lopez
[I think there are a lot of Americans who are very scared ] that Donald Trump and his campaign, or his future administration, is just in denial. They just want to say, no, no, no, [Vladimir] Putin couldn't possibly have done this. -- E. J. Dionne
It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved. One of our great strengths is that we're an optimistic people, but that doesn't mean we don't have sad days. -- Marianne Williamson
I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth. -- Kangna Ranaut
It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer. -- Donald Byrd
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. -- Mark Twain
We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore. -- Javier Bardem
The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself. -- Keith Miller
I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways. -- Marian Keyes
If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity. -- Jean-Francois Cope
We all do things where we don't care about other people. And we deal with it in whatever ways we can, denial or make excuses. -- Rene Russo
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. -- Ambrose Bierce
We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death. -- Henry Giroux
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair. -- Angelina Grimke
Self-denial is a monkish virtue. -- David Hume
Denial is an ugly thing. -- Nicholas Sparks
Self-denial is the best riches. -- Seneca the Younger
Don't censor incoming data through denial. -- Deepak Chopra
Never underestimate the power of denial. -- Alan Ball
Security is the denial of life -- Germaine Greer
There has to be some self-denial. -- Joe Paterno
Denial is a very powerful thing. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
Hope is the denial of reality. -- Margaret Weis
The only aberration is denial of self. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Denial of one appetite sharpens the others. -- Mason Cooley
After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
What state do you live in? Denial. -- Bill Watterson
Give me romance. Flash. Give me denial. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Delay is the deadliest form of denial. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Debate is so much better than denial. -- Julie Walters
Delay is the deadliest form of denial -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint. -- John F. Kennedy
American society has gone completely into denial. -- Jerry Garcia
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego. -- Ambrose Bierce
The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial. -- Matthew Henry
There's a fine line between forgiveness and denial. -- Janet Rebhan
ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial. -- Louisa May Alcott
What is art but the denial of life? -- Fernando Pessoa
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. -- James Patterson
Denial is a save now, pay later scheme. -- Gavin de Becker
I don't like denial. I don't like repression. -- C. K. Williams
Denial is much more then an Egyptian River. -- Mark Twain
And weed's not a drug - that's denial -- Macklemore
In the denial of disorder there is order. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only atheism is the denial of truth. -- Arthur Lynch
Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial. -- Paul C. Nagel
Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy. -- Lord Acton
The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial. -- Victor Hugo
No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it. -- Nikki Rosen
Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not. -- Rosalind Kaplan
I have a very highly developed sense of denial. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity. -- Jacob Burckhardt
The principle of realism means denial of the ideal. -- Gustave Courbet
Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land. -- Jim Butcher
The denial of racism is a form of racism itself. -- Tim Wise
Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial. -- John Bradshaw
underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice. -- David Levithan
Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on -- Douglas MacArthur
How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail. -- Jennifer Salaiz
The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility. -- Shirley MacLaine
The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction -- John Bunyan
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession. -- Edwin Louis Cole
I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths. -- Lucy Lawless
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. -- Oscar Wilde
I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial. -- Winston Churchill
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. -- Bill Watterson
All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God. -- Peter Hollingworth
I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial. -- Jeanette Winterson
I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind. -- Jason Momoa
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms. -- Seneca the Younger

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