We are to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
“Such a narrative as this demands some sort of physical consolation for its spiritual tribulation. Our heroine received it in one last… — Emily C.A. Snyder Copy Share Image
I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“23rd.—With all the cares of life, and all its sorrows, yet I find that a life of communion with God is sufficient… — George Smith Copy Share Image
The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the… — Beilby Porteus Copy Share Image
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champion and… — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may… — Rupert Holmes Copy Share Image
Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Kiss me, please kiss me But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation You know it makes me so angry… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
“It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Oh! how great and glorious a thing it is to have before one the Word of God! With that we may at… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The man who is satisfied, because he thinks he is safe, who feels that he has religion enough, because he thinks he… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
“What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things:… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Really, it is the Lord who carries the cross, for He knows how to make the soul content with little or no… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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