I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. — Martin Kippenberger Copy Share Image
It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales. — Milton Berle 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
I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence. — Cristina Garcia 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
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
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
We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. — Henri Poincare 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
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 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
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 notion that 'it all somehow must make sense', or 'there is a best decision here', preserves from despair: the difficulty is… — Iris Murdoch 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
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there,… — Karen Armstrong 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
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
Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth… — Harold Rosenberg 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
At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying?… — Sogyal Rinpoche 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
“. . . 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
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
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. — Anonymous 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
He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
“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
Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement. — Mata Amritanandamayi 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
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