Unconsolable Quotes

#1. We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.
That is the unconsolable heartburn, the lifelong disquietude of having been made in the image of God.

Robert Farrar Capon

#2. Our eyes are not only the windows to our soul; they guide us through a life that should not be travelled blindly. Open them.

K.M. Golland

#3. The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their efforts equal, form the great difficulty that to me appears insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society.

Thomas Malthus

#4. Time is the author of authors.

Francis Bacon

#5. All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

George Orwell

#6. Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin ...

Mark Twain

#7. I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about sex in all my books anyway.

Meg Wolitzer

#8. My kids' books all have a darkness to them.

David Small

#9. Every morning I walk like this around
the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.

Mary Oliver

#10. Beauty becomes ugly
under the influence of
the demons inside the mind.

HoBs

#11. 'Real Steel' was this lovely little piece where I held a cup of coffee and talked to Hugh Jackman for three weeks. And that sounded kind of nice.

Evangeline Lilly

#12. They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities.

Rachel Caine