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Letter "C" » consolation
«Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself»
«The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.»
Author: Robert Hughes (Author, Critic) | About: Art | Keywords: consolation, Less Than Perfect
«The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence»
Author: Shelagh Delaney | About: Absence | Keywords: consolation, immediate
«The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of mattress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.»
Author: Brendan Behan | About: Religion | Keywords: cell, consolation, match, stuffing, tasted
«Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies , and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.»
«The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.»
«To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic»
«They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.»
«The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.»
«The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks»

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