If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.
It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.
Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.
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.
There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.
I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?
It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.
They that do much themselves deny, Receive more blessings from the sky.
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.
I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.
pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.
What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding to have to live with the added anus of indignity. The denial of one's inevitable demise is what causes most of the astringent blandness in the world. When your existence ends most certainly in death, there is no such thing as 'going too far'. There are no 'lines' you should fear to cross except the finish line. Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you could do.
That which is denied cannot be healed.
We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.
It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know that you must do.
Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.