Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of… — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr Copy Share Image
The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them… — Rose of Viterbo Copy Share Image
“drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within I am awake… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
“The stratagems by which briefly you ameliorated, even seemingly untwisted what still twists within you — you loved their taste and lay… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them,… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us… — Junot Diaz 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
Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power,… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
“But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem , and how small they are ; how we… — William Makepeace Thackeray 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
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
“If it’s any consolation, I don’t think I would’ve had it in me to be his friend if we’d broken up. I… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
“Ball even tracked down Gander mayor Claude Elliott for the story. He said of the Gander 9/11 response, "We did the only… — Kevin Tuerff Copy Share Image
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
With all profound love poured generously over Family, Religion and Nation, Humanity is left in lurch only to be conferred with a… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than usual propriety; it was that of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such… — John Sterling Copy Share Image
And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all… — Lloyd D. Newell Copy Share Image
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed,… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend… — Aelred of Rievaulx Copy Share Image
“The first week at August's was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are entirely in the care of Divine Providence, and it is very sweet to remain so in peace. The Cross is… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
