Anodyne Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
— George Eliot
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Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
— Herman Wouk
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and…
— James Russell Lowell
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...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.
— H. Russell Wakefield
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In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest…
— Paul Lockhart
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When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most…
— G. H. Hardy
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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
— Virginia Woolf
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I don't feel any pressure at all because I don't care. That's an occupational hazard... but if you're doing anything of any worth, and not…
— Ricky Gervais
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You’ll get over it…†It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t…
— Jeanette Winterson
Who Wrote These Anodyne Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Anodyne Quotes as follows: