Assuagement Quotes

#1. The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

Iris Murdoch

#2. In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

Juana Ines De La Cruz

#3. Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

Eric Hoffer

#4. Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

Shannen Doherty

#5. The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.

Ezra Klein

#6. Europe is very critical to the United States in the sense not only do we have a fourth of our exports there, but more importantly, a significant proportion of the foreign affiliate profits in fact, half of U.S. corporations, are in Europe.

Alan Greenspan

#7. As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

Julius Caesar

#8. The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company ... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.

Sam Altman

#9. I am so far from being a pessimist ... on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

Eugene O'Neill

#10. Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

Langston Hughes

#11. I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

Patsy Kensit

#12. By now it's got as much in common with its origins as a humpback whale would have with the sperm cells from a therapsid lizard. Still,

Peter Watts