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I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. -- Martin Kippenberger
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me. -- Richard Dawkins
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 to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. -- Aleister Crowley
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 comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange. -- Peter Zumthor
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour. -- Paul Gauguin
Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. -- Oscar Wilde
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 boldness. -- Paul Gauguin
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 the theatre. -- Moss Hart
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 is the feast of failure, sad but consoling. -- Graham Greene
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience. -- Cesare Pavese
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 that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked. -- Betty Smith
We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement. -- Henry Clay
These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life. -- James Martineau
Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and that every event, great and small, prosperous and adverse, is under the absolute disposal of Him who doth all things well, and who regulates all things for the good of his people. -- Jerry Bridges
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 true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! -- Abraham Lincoln
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most searching experiences of life. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from. -- Pico Iyer
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 embraces. -- Frans de Waal
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The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine. -- Joyce Carol Oates
It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. -- Michael Leunig
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion. -- Sam Harris
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling. -- Iris Murdoch
Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life. -- C. S. Lewis
True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions. -- Amit Kalantri
I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling. -- May Sarton
It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales. -- Milton Berle
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. -- Don DeLillo
I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the seaâ??s consoling silence. -- Cristina Garcia
Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. -- Henri Poincare
False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment. -- Richard Dawkins
When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you. -- James L. Brooks
Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye. -- Paul Kane
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
If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling. -- Simon Blackburn
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring. -- Northrop Frye
How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness. -- Rose Philippine Duchesne
I think there is something very consoling in feeling lost in space but also feeling grounded, and seeing that all of this is part of a bigger clockwork -- Wolfgang Tillmans
It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true. Many people cannot understand that distinction. -- Richard Dawkins
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 the one you are grieving. -- Candy Lightner
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit. -- Pope John Paul II
He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan. -- Alain de Botton
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies... -- Louis Pasteur
It is always consoling to think of suicide;it's what gets one through many a bad night. -- Gillian Flynn

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