Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. — Martin Kippenberger Copy Share Image
Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a… — Candy Lightner Copy Share Image
There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for [Donald] Trump,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think there is something very consoling in feeling lost in space but also feeling grounded, and seeing that all of this… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing--being mindful of--my capacity for feeling caring concern. ... when I… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement.… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Women are mad at me. A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me. Like, ‘How could… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle,… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We have two boys. After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, we had to explain to our older… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed… — Diophantus Copy Share Image
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a… — Baron D'Holbach Copy Share Image
But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I love to disturb people, because only by disturbing them you can make them think. They have stopped thinking for centuries. Nobody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“After a spent day, I walked back in a fever. The whole way home the sun touched my cheeks. The blissful evening… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, "It's really important to make a good first impression on… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image