Soothing Quotes

• There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

  John Millington Synge

  Ireland And The Irish, Language, Being Irish

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.396, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

  Gertrude Stein

  History, Doe, Repeats

  "Wars I Have Seen". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1945.

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• The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

  Winston Churchill

  Procrastination, Entering, Delay

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.126, A&C Black

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• What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Depressing, Art

  Notes d'un peintre (Notes of a Painter, 1908) in Dominique Fourcade crits et propos sur l'art (1972) p. 30

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• Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Circles, Voice, Space

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.238, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Adversity, Obstacles

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.110, Modern Library

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• We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Lonely, Nature, Wind

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• Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.

  Thomas Hood

  Running, Sweet, Singing

  Thomas Hood, Francis James Child (1856). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.147

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• The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Wind, Accents

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

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• Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Pain, Punishment, Catholic

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• I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Weed, Nature, Marijuana

  Jerome K. Jerome (2013). “Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome”, p.369, e-artnow

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• We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Hands, Drug

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• Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Tongue, Habit

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.341, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ego, Sanctuary, Arms

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• Circles create soothing space.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Circles, Space

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.238, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

  Anna Quindlen

  Romance, Special, Rooms

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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• It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Feelings, Cameras

  Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

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• Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

  Martha Beck

  Real, Lying, Problem

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• A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

  Joan Didion

  Eye, Order, Water

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 06, 2011

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• It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

  Rudy Rucker

  Mind, Realizing, Process

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• My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

  Gloria Estefan

  Beautiful, Mother, Voice

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• I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me.

  Michelle Kwan

  Skater

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

  Mel Torme

  Liars, Lying, Lovely

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• The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Beauty, Art, Character

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.207

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• The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Love, Soulmate, Regret

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