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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
The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
— Alain De Botton
Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
— Alain De Botton
Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
— Alain De Botton
It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.
— Alain De Botton
One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.
— Alain De Botton
I did not live Chloe for her body, I loved her body for the promise of who she was. It was a most inspiring promise
— Alain De Botton
There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
— Alain De Botton
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
— Alain De Botton
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
— Alain De Botton
it seems impossible to talk of love and letting live, and if we are left to live, we are not usually loved.
— Alain De Botton
Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.
— Alain De Botton
Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.
— Alain De Botton
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
— Alain De Botton
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.
— Alain De Botton
It is easy to get upset about the deteriorating state of one's body, but there are other ways to excel and impress than via one's legs.
— Alain De Botton
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.
— Alain De Botton
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
— Alain De Botton
Sunday evenings had long saddened me, reminders of death, unfinished business, guilt, and loss.
— Alain De Botton
After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
— Alain De Botton
Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
— Alain De Botton
Writing isn't a career choice. It's self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
— Alain De Botton
I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
— Alain De Botton
To one's enemies: I hate myself more than you ever could.
— Alain De Botton
Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
— Alain De Botton
Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
— Alain De Botton
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[W]e all incline in astonishingly personal ways to idiocy and spite
— Alain De Botton
Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape ...
— Alain De Botton
We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.
— Alain De Botton
To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song.
— 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
The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
— Alain De Botton
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
— Alain De Botton
Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?
— Alain De Botton
You can tell a paragraph is slipping out of control when there's a runaway use of the word 'hence.
— Alain De Botton
What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.
— Alain De Botton
The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
— Alain De Botton
You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
— Alain De Botton
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
— Alain De Botton
Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
— Alain De Botton
Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
— Alain De Botton
The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.
— Alain De Botton
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer 's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
— Alain De Botton
To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.
— Alain De Botton
Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.
— Alain De Botton
It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
— Alain De Botton
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
— Alain De Botton
Like many other outstanding examples of the genre, Ingres's portrait teaches us that appearance can be a bearer of authentic meaning.
— Alain De Botton
Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.
— Alain De Botton
Nature's kind trick is to make everything happen so slowly that we don't get as scared as we should.
— Alain De Botton
It is surely significant that the adults who feature in children's books are rarely, if ever, Regional Sales Managers or Building Services Engineers.
— Alain De Botton
In Flaubert's eyes, that only entirely illiterate and uneducated Frenchmen now stood a chance of being able to think properly:
— Alain De Botton
Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.
— Alain De Botton
A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It's almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.
— Alain De Botton
I just got my first bikini. It's a three-piece: a top, a botton, and a blindfold for you.
— Wendy Liebman
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
— Alain De Botton
When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.
— Alain De Botton
We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
— Alain De Botton
Bowie Comeback Makes Top 10 Singles Chart 2.52M
— Alain De Botton
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
— Alain De Botton
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
— Alain De Botton
I was to look around me as though I had never been in this place before. And slowly, my travels began to bear fruit.
— Alain De Botton
There are two ways to make a man richer, reasoned Rousseau: give him more money or curb his desires.
— Alain De Botton
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
— Alain De Botton
A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.
— Alain De Botton
The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.
— Alain De Botton
The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
— Alain De Botton
BOREDOM IS A new challenge and responsibility.
— Alain De Botton
We've also been forced to learn something rather more surprising: no one is particularly interested.
— Alain De Botton
...love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.
— Alain De Botton
A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.
— Alain De Botton
Must being in love always mean being in pain?
— Alain De Botton
Memory is ... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
— Alain De Botton
Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could imagine.
— 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
Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.
— Alain De Botton
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole ...
— Alain De Botton
People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
— Alain De Botton
There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
— Alain De Botton
Confinement. This morning the plane was over the Malay peninsula,
— Alain De Botton
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
— Alain De Botton
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.
— 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
The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
— Alain De Botton
The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.
— Alain De Botton
(disliking people rarely being a sufficient reason for not wanting them to like us).
— Alain De Botton
The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.
— Alain De Botton
Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.
— Alain De Botton
East DR Congo Faces Catastrophic Humanitarian Crisis 4,450
— Alain De Botton
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
— Alain De Botton
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
— Alain De Botton
A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.
— Alain De Botton
