Think about it Quote by Roger Scruton Download Open image ““The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.”” — Roger Scruton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Think about it
“My only consolation when I am really sad is to love and to be loved.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you lost something precious, the memories of it became a tormenting reminder of what you could never have again.” — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“What this world needs is truth, not consolation. It must find itself in its ordeal and by way of its restlessness, not in the… — Jean-Luc Nancy Copy Share Image
“Thank God for our illusions, it gives us the rest of hope, and the rest of consolation” — H-Daboor Copy Share Image
“Ah, when one has not the gift of rendering one's grief superbly and transforming it into literary or musical passages which weep magnificently, the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In the end you can't save your soul and life by thought. But if you think , the least of the consolation prizes is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem , and how small they are ; how we think we… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have lost for… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“…crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Reality is strange, exhilarating, and tragic. Sometimes reality is well beyond our understanding.” — Joe Mynhardt Copy Share Image
“What we have not has made us what we are. Those surface consolations have to go.” — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“So conceived, the English police force served to emphasize a fundamental truth about the English law, which is that it exists not to control… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it.… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“I think we can all see the force of the idea that there are certain things that cannot be done to human beings –… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Western democracies did not create the virtue of citizenship; on the contrary, they grew from it. Nothing is more evident in The Federalist than… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“If one looks back to the French Revolution, one sees just how easy it is for the doctrine of “human rights” to become an… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“I say it was immediately apparent, but it was not apparent to the intellectual class, which has remained largely wedded to the post-war consensus… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Does the person you're throwing those words at have as much strength to catch catch them as you did to throw them? Would you… — Audrey Regan Copy Share Image
“You may have the greatest vision, plans or goals as you may term it. You can call it Vison 2020, Vision 2045 or whatever.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
So if all the parents tell their kids to be leaders and not followers what do we end up with? A bunch of politicians… — Rachel Copy Share Image
