Top 1200 Denial Of Reality Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

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

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

I came from a reality show and my whole family including my sisters Shakti and Mukti Mohan have achieved fame through reality shows.

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

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

Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

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

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

The energy you give off based on your beliefs... your emotions... your behavior... the vibrational frequency you give off is what determines the kind of reality experience you have... because physical reality doesn't exist except as a reflection of what you most strongly believe is true for you. That is all that physical reality is. It is literally like a mirror.

We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

I don't want to base my life on a symbol, he said resolutely. I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What's not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They're the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream.

The red tape for family members who want to speak to a loved one is a reality, ... The warehousing of prisoners is a reality. ... All of this needs to be looked at, not just medical care.

We were in denial about the extent to which Britain had cured itself of the poison of racism.

Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.

Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to the concept of radical constructivism - is that the only thing we can ever know about the real reality (if it even exists) is what it is not. It is only with the collapse of our constructions of reality that we first discover that the world is not the way we imagine.

Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality itself.

My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

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

My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.

The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

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

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

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

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

People saw I was in horrendous shape when I was in the WWF. They suggested I go into rehab. I was in that much denial.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.

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

Imagination is always greater than reality, and the reality of a sex paradise is that they offer a supposed escape from the nightmare of repressive society.

Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the expense of reality itself. They talk figures and icons and signs, but fail to perceive forces and flows. They bind us to other realities, and especially the reality of power as it subjugates us. Their function is to tame, and the result is the fabrication of docile and obedient subjects.

At its very core, virtual reality is about being freed from the limitations of actual reality. Carrying your virtual reality with you, and being able to jump into it whenever and wherever you want, qualitatively changes the experience for the better. Experiencing mobile VR is like when you first tried a decent desktop VR experience.

As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.

I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains.

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing.

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

Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality.

For me, the main point is that reality is rich. We can respond to it more immediately and directly, in ways where there's less displacement between representation and reality.

We strongly condemn all forms of anti-Semitism as well as any form of downplaying or denial of the Holocaust.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.