He did not dare
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
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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
The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost. Evelyn Underhill
How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the … Read more
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. Friedrich Nietzsche
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
A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into … Read more
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. Don DeLillo
His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life; when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a … Read more
There’s something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They’ll think she’s bitter, jealous, lonely. But she’s also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to … Read more
I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence. Cristina Garcia