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Quotes About Assuage

When vain desire at last, and vain regretGo hand in hand to death, and all is vain,What shall assuage the unforgotten painAnd teach the unforgetful to forget?
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Vassily cleared his throat, probably impatient with Gabriel's bookshelf manners. 'You'll have to excuse me,' Gabriel said, putting back the booklet, 'I have a severe addiction to ink.' 'Don't we all?' Vassily nodded. 'Thank God we have other addictions to assuage it a little.
~ Jean-Christophe Valtat
Nothing could assuage the secular grief that was your heritage.
~ Aldous Huxley
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
~ James Nesbitt
Are not heavens joyes as valiant to asswage Lusts, as earths honour was to them?
~ John Donne
All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
~ Sophie Swetchine
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
~ Arthur Erickson
The paternalism of an economic system that first creates economic hardship for millions, then pretends to know how to assuage it, is delusional.
~ Marianne Williamson
As he stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete retribution, brought by his own hand upon his enemies.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Using a wide variety of media, we could demonstrate for our fellow Americans their anxieties, desires, insufficiencies, and frustrations--and how to assuage them all. We informed you in six seconds that you needed something you didn't know you lacked. We made you want anything that anyone willing to pay us wanted you to want. We were hired guns of the human soul. We pulled the strings on the people across the land and by god they got to their feet and they danced for us.
~ Joshua Ferris
Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.
~ Samuel West
Far be in from me to dictate how you should assuage your guilt. Do you have a lot of it? She bit his good shoulder. You're about to find out. She toppled them both off the bench and onto the mat. Well, ouch. I take it guilt doesn't bring out your gentler side.
~ J.D. Robb
She was a teacher, for God's sake. What did she know to say about dangers such as these? How could she assuage a child's fear when her own was straining at the leash?
~ Kristin Hannah
Vianne was thankful for the bell. She was a teacher, for God's sake. What did she know to say about dangers such as these? How could she assuage a child's fear when her own was straining at the leash?
~ Kristin Hannah
ameliorate the effect. "Can I give you any solace?
~ Gordon J. Horwitz
The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.
~ Armond White
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
~ Charles de Secondat
The bloom of health, and life, to man will bring; As from her depths the magic liquid flows, To calm our sufferings, and assuage our woes.
~ Daniel Yergin
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
~ Arthur Erickson
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
~ Unknown