Quotes of Soothe - somelinesforyou

“ Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. ”

- William Congreve

“ Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. ”

- John Armstrong

“ Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind. ”

- Leigh Hunt

“ Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. ”

- William Congreve

“ I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. ”

- Alice Walker

“ Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. ”

- Sir Francis Bacon

“ Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe! ”

- George Crabbe

“ I do not like 'but yet, it does allay The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,' 'But yet' is as a jailer to bring forth Some monstrous malefactor. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. ”

- Seneca

“ The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort; with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature… ”

- Anne Frank

“ What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. ”

- George Eliot

“ The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. ”

- Edith Sitwell

“ I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first. ”

- Josh Billings

“ She soothed and solaced and celebrated, destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers. ”

- Martha Bacon

“ The charities that soothe and heal and bless are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. ”

- Joan Didion

“ There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer. ”

- Bodenstedt

“ When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily. ”

- Anita Baker

“ Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ”

- Louis Kronenberger

“ Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave. ”

- Paul Walker
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