I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. — Martin Kippenberger Copy Share Image
There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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
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
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. — Anonymous 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
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
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
Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a… — Steven Weinberg 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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you.… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 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
Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement. — Mata Amritanandamayi 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
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales. — Milton Berle 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 wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence. — Cristina Garcia 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
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
Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this… — Virginia Woolf 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
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