"We also know how cruel the truth often……" — Henri Poincare

More Consoling Quotes

This quote is filed under Consoling Quotes, one of 67 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when… — Alain de Botton
• There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. — Oscar Wilde
• If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes],… — Louis Pasteur
• At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we… — Sogyal Rinpoche
• In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can… — Marvin J. Ashton
• In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters… — James Madison
• Women are mad at me. A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me. Like,… — Ryan Gosling
• Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating… — Jürgen Moltmann
• Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can… — Steven Weinberg
• Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as… — Henri Nouwen
• We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely… — Alain de Botton
• The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an… — Evelyn Underhill

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