Benign Quotes

“Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.”

“Life without risk is a life that is benign and sterile.”

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”

“When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.”

“Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.”

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are.”

“A good meal soothes the soul as it regenerates the body.From the abundance of it flows a benign benevolence.”

“But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by themselves.”

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”