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
He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in… — Edward Abbey 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
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
My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault,… — Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix Copy Share Image
What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory. — Brigit of Kildare 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
There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares. — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
