I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. — Martin Kippenberger 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
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
“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
Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement. — Mata Amritanandamayi 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
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
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sitting down and consoling someone when they have a minor cut like a paper cut. It obviously hurts, but it's the kind… — Alice Eve 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
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
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to… — Evelyn Underhill 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
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
“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
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
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
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
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“My shoulders, broad and sculpted thick, were designed for two useful purposes. The one, to carry heavy loads like cedar logs and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld 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
“. . . 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
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 are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all… — Rose Philippine Duchesne 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
“Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo 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
When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you. — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
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