Consoling Quotes

67 quotes by 63 authors

Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to… — Candy Lightner
When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude Boys… — Ken Wilber
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form the… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great… — Thomas Merton
The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is… — Peter Zumthor
When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror… — Karen Armstrong
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something… — Giles Andreae
Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement. — Mata Amritanandamayi
It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales. — Milton Berle
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set… — Richard Ford
The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of… — Moss Hart
There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their… — Paul Gauguin
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling… — Aleister Crowley
The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me. — Richard Dawkins
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance.… — Sam Harris
I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. — Martin Kippenberger
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. — Stanley Kubrick
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. — Walter Lippmann
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone… — Meghan O'Rourke

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