Quote

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Mason Cooley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Reviving
Forgiveness
Faith
Keep
Like

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
The writer considers sayability before anything else.
Mason Cooley
Image
Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.
Mason Cooley
Image
For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.
Mason Cooley
Image
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
Mason Cooley
Image
My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.
Mason Cooley
Image
It is hard to speak of sex without being clinical, brutal, or romantic.
Mason Cooley
Image
Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company.
Mason Cooley
Image
Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.
Mason Cooley
Image
If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.
Mason Cooley
Image
Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
Mason Cooley
Image
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
Mason Cooley
Image
A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.
Mason Cooley
Image
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
Mason Cooley
Image
Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.
Mason Cooley
Image
The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.
Mason Cooley
Image
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
Mason Cooley
Image
Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.
Mason Cooley
Image
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
Mason Cooley
Image
The popping of bubblegum discourages the most determined lecher.
Mason Cooley
Image
A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.
Mason Cooley