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
Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are… — Simon Blackburn 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which… — Anthony Trollope 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
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power… — James Madison 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
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
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
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
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once… — Reinhold Niebuhr 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
“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
False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment. — Richard Dawkins 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
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
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
Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the… — Jerry Bridges 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
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
When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors,… — Ken Wilber 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
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
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
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
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
