Deny - Quotes
You can`t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your own experience or convictions.
Why deny it. As a child I had the usual foolish dreams. For instance, I wanted to be a pilot, an engine driver, or failing that, an engine. Sometimes I even fantasized that when I grew up I`d become the Vienna Express.
The most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that`s what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever even knowing it was there.
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.
Religion, like poetry, is simply a concerted effort to deny the most obvious realities.