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“The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.”

Alain de Botton

Source: On Love

“Not everyone is worth listening to.”

Alain de Botton book The Consolations of Philosophy

Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 33.

“A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.”

Alain de Botton book The Consolations of Philosophy

Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 168.

“There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.”

Alain de Botton book The Consolations of Philosophy

Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 23.

“Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.”

Alain de Botton

“Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.”

Alain de Botton

“One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.”

Alain de Botton

“Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.”

Alain de Botton

“Must being in love always mean being in pain?”

Alain de Botton

Source: On Love

“Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.”

Alain de Botton

“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”

Alain de Botton

“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”

Alain de Botton

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”

Alain de Botton

“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”

Alain de Botton

Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life

“You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.”

Alain de Botton

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”

Alain de Botton

“As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.”

Alain de Botton

“Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.”

Alain de Botton

“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”

Alain de Botton

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”

Alain de Botton