Top Denial Quotes
On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permi...
Marcia Sirota
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abuse, alienation, child abuse, childhood abuse, denial, deny, family secrets, forbidden, hidden, incest
Denial Definition
(n.) The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.
(n.) A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction.
(n.) A refusal to grant; rejection of a request.
(n.) A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God.
Pride is pride not because it hates being wrong, but because it loves being wrong: To hate being wrong is to change your opinion when you are proven wrong; whereas pride, even when proven wrong, decid...
Criss Jami
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arrogance, being wrong, belief, change, correction, denial, development, dishonesty, facts, falsehood
They say grief occurs in five stages. First there's denial followed by anger. Then comes bargaining, depression and acceptance. But grief is a merciless master. Just when you think you're free you rea...
Emily Thorne
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acceptance, anger, bargaining, denial, depression, grief, master, merciless, revenge, revenge tv series
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither...
Frederick Douglass
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society, class, class struggle, class warfare, conspiracy, denial, ignorance, inequity, justice, oppression
When I deny the seriousness of my abuse I agree with my abuser and those who wouldn't acknowledge it. When I am in denial, I have the tendency to minimize my abuse, believe the lies others have said,...
Patty Hite
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abuse, abuse survivor, child abuse, denial, deny, healing, minimise, perception, recovery, survivor
They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in when Sandy says hello to hi...
Marisha Pessl
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cruelty, daisy buchanan, denial, disappointment, embarrassment, grease, jay gatsby, movies, nervous, pop culture