Consoling Quotes

67 quotes by 63 authors

The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our… — Joyce Carol Oates
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender… — Frans de Waal
Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it… — Graham Greene
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be… — Abraham Lincoln
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling. — Iris Murdoch
Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on… — Virginia Woolf
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us… — Richard Wright
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! â€”Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo
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
But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow… — Betty Smith
Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life. — C.S. Lewis
She had always been a readerâ€¦ but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, sheâ€™d been caught… — Louise Erdrich
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds… — Alain de Botton
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen… — Umberto Eco
There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong… — Jacqueline Carey
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet… — Roger Scruton
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence. I have formed during the last few years such… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the… — Honore de Balzac
We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. — Henri Poincare

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