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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.

In the denial of that disorder there is order.

In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

I so wreak of logic and commonsense that it is obviously very refreshing in this world of otherwise soulless politically correct denial and dishonesty. God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no drunks, no criminals, no bloodsuckers, no excuse makers, no crybabies, no punks, no Obama supporters. My entire team are dedicated to be the absolute best that we can be and as productive as humanly possible. Wouldn't that be great if all of America were like that.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

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

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.

I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

It is the lack of knowledge of, or the unwillingness to recognise, or the deliberate denial of the existence of the serial bully which is the most common reason for an unsatisfactory outcome for both employee and employer.

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

It's so much easier to get high than how scary it must be to see who you actually are and take responsibility for it. Denial is an easy place to live in.

Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then her only option becomes deviance. I chose deviance. I chose to be a loving dissident. To dance the dance of dissidence. This stance can be assumed from the inside or the outside. Whichever place we choose, the important thing is having the sustained will to be, act, and speak from the ground of our feminine souls.

I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.

Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

It wasn't government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn't government that gave us the yearly and lifetime caps on insurance coverage that have sent so many people into bankruptcy when they've faced a serious illness or accident... It wasn't government that gave us a system in which the gap between what we spend and what we get is so enormous. It was the free market.

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.

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.

Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent Mother in whose womb we live is mindlessly poisoned and raped. Surely, our insane denial has to be perceived and acted upon.

Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

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

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

only a matter of time before it broke through our fragile web of denial, forcing us to confront the truth and acknowledge who we are: two people in love – a love that nobody else could possibly understand.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on

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.

People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

People tend to believe accusations more than denials.