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Consoling Quotes

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Perfect, Consoling, Awe
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.66

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

Iris Murdoch
Art, Consoling
Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.295, Penguin

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

Richard Dawkins
Belief, Moments, Consoling
Richard Dawkins (2009). “The God Delusion”, p.398, Random House

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.

Martin Kippenberger
People, Trying, Consoling

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

Stanley Kubrick
Problem, Consoling, Ifs

I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.

May Sarton
God, Alive, Consoling
May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.329, Open Road Media

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

C. S. Lewis
Grace, Humour, Consoling

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