Quotes About Conviviality

#1. Of all the old festivals, however, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality, and lifts the sprit to a state of hallowed and elevated enjoyment.

Washington Irving

#2. Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

Wendell Berry

#3. In an industrial society, psychological benefits such as security, fulfilment, status, solidarity and conviviality are all delivered primarily through the jobs that people have or the work that they do.

Ernst F. Schumacher

#4. If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

M.F.K. Fisher

#5. History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.

Christian Adam Ribeiraud

#6. After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Walt Whitman

#7. We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.

David Abram

#8. If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?

Herrick Johnson

#9. The unfortunate Elizabeth Bathori was said to bathe in the blood of young girls in order to preserve her youth and beauty. Apparently more than 600 maidens went down the drain before anyone noticed something amiss at the castle. How very inobservant the neighbors must have been.

Robert Dunbar

#10. What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

Charles Dickens

#11. It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

Dorothy Parker

#12. When it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.

Ransom Riggs

#13. The train was parked fifty feet up, by a toy station that mimicked the one across the street. Hanging from its eaves was a sign which read TOPEKA. The train was Charlie the Choo-Choo, cowcatcher and all; a 402 Big Boy Steam Locomotive.

Stephen King

#14. What is the point of "labor saving" if by making work effortless we make it poor, and if by doing poor work we weaken our bodies and lose conviviality and health? (Health is Membership, pg. 93)

Wendell Berry

#15. Human beings wear clothing and walk upright, but when you take that away, we're nothing but monkeys.

Osamu Tezuka