Denial Quotes

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms.

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.

I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real.

You don't like dealing with somebody who denies horrible things happening to your people or threatens future horrible things to your people.

I said nothing of the sort.

Nobody did nothin' to nobody.

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Denial is an ugly thing.

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening.

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.