How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“God understands everything. And even He made a mistake or two. Look at the size of avocado seeds - way too big.… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye. — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
