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In Denial Quotes

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.
- Richard Bach

And you must be the cause of this disaster." Sasha
"I didn't do anything." Abigail
"She's in denial." Sundown
"Cool. We can feed her to the coyotes then, and I can go back to Sanctuary and continue scoping out this amazing brunette who keeps coming in with her friends." Sasha
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

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.
- Lindsey Buckingham

I gasped as he tightened his embrace around me.
"I'm afraid I'll never have the opportunity to hold you like this again." His voice was soft and vulnerable.
"You don't have to let me go... ever." David shook his head in denial.
"My mind refuses your words, yet my vacant chest welcomes them," he argued, his face buried in my neck.
- Nely Cab

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.
- Eric Jerome Dickey

American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.
- Niall Ferguson

Soon he was online every night until one or two a.m. Often he would wake up at three of four a.m. and go back online. He would shut down the computer screen when I walked in. In the past, he used to take the laptop to bed with him and we would both be on our laptops, hips touching. He stopped doing that, slipping off to his office instead and closing the door even when A was asleep. He started closing doors behind him. I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.
- Suzanne Finnamore

I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.
- Suzanne Finnamore

Being a politician is a lot like being an alcoholic in denial.
- Huntley Fitzpatrick

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.
- David Geffen

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

In one was, 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. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.
- Christopher Hitchens

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

The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.
- Criss Jami

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
- Criss Jami

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

a man begins dying at the moment of his birth. most people ;ive in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
- Dean Koontz

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?
- Ian Mcewan

Denying that you're in denial is being in denial and is utterly redundant.
- S L Naeole

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

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 never thought that gay boys would be so dramatic about romance. And sooooo in denial. You wouldn't recognize common sense if it came up to you, bit you in the ass, and called you Sally.
- Hayden Thorne

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

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