Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
“Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to … Read More
Religion works. I know there’s comfort there, a crash pad. It’s something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it’s comforting. I grew up believing in it, and it worked for me in whatever my little personal high school crisis was, but it didn’t last for me.
“Religion works. I know there’s comfort there, a crash pad. It’s … Read More
By clarity I don’t mean that we’re always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood. Clarity is certainly a way toward disorientation because if you don’t start out – if the reader isn’t grounded, if the reader is disoriented in the beginning of the poem, then the reader can’t be led astray or disoriented later.
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In the States, I think, the syllogism goes like this: ‘free markets solve all problems. Free markets aren’t solving global warming, QED global warming is not a problem’. It’s not a very good syllogism but it’s emotionally comforting if you’re in that world.
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.
“No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is … Read More
Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.
“Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, … Read More
There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought, and he therefore cannot carry his own reflection to any logical conclusion.
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I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.
“I can say that even in the midst of my most … Read More
I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.
“I was able to see faith as more than just a … Read More