QUOTES

Quotes by Alain de Botton

"Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisf..."
- 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
"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 b..."
- Alain de Botton
"One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively h..."
- Alain de Botton
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
- Alain de Botton
"One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on."
- 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 diseas..."
- Alain de Botton
"To one-s enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.""
- Alain de Botton
"Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak unti..."
- Alain de Botton
"It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might oth..."
- Alain de Botton
"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."
- Alain de Botton
"Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand."
- Alain de Botton
"To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.""
- Alain de Botton