Balm Quotes
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Slander is the balm of malignity.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
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In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
Sarah Fielding
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We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
Etty Hillesum
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The mullein had finished blooming, and stood up out of the pastures like dusty candelabra. The flowers of Queen Anne's lace had curled up into birds' nests, and the bee balm was covered with little crown-shaped pods. In another month -- no, two, maybe -- would come the season of the skeletons, when all that was left of the weeds was their brittle architecture. But the time was not yet. The air was warm and bright, the grass was green, and the leaves, and the lazy monarch butterflies were everywhere.
Elizabeth Enright
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Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.
Diane Ackerman