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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.
I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.
Honestly there's nothing soothing, nothing consoling like being part of a collective, dancing to music.
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.
The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
Sonnen always appeared as the nice guy, consoling his fighters, while my scenes were all of me with ugly face. It was biased.
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.
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.
Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.
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.
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.
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.
I find it more consoling to think of myself as little than to think of myself as big. I think I've gotten that from animals, particularly dogs. Dogs live such a modest life, and they don't live long, and the more you're around them, you kind of accept that.
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.
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.