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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. — Will Durant

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right. — Edward St. Aubyn

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond. — Leo Tolstoy

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure. — Edmund White

Lovemaking is the consolation for living in the body, just as art is the consolation for living in the world. — Laura Argiri

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer. — Thomas A Kempis

Hope is the consolation of the world. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. — Alan Furst

These tears need to be shed, wept into the earth where there is no hope of consolation. Sometimes a man has to cry alone. — Edmond Manning

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I can offer you no consolation, my friend," said he; "your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do? — Mary Shelley

Even success needs its consolations. — George Eliot

Marriage [is] two flawed people coming together to create a space of stability, love and consolation, a haven in a heartless world. — Timothy Keller

If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best. — Paulo Coelho

Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation. — Claude Monet

Art can bring us consolation as individuals," he said, "but it is powerless against reality. — Stefan Zweig

Jesus whispers consolation; I cannot refuse it; I will sit under His shadow with great delight. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it. — Norm MacDonald

Happiness is just a priest who reads us words of consolation while we walk up the steps to the hangman. — William H Gass

I guess the consolation is that she's not going to be beautiful forever," he says. "But I'd like to be with her before that happens. — Bret Easton Ellis

I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man — Martin Luther King Jr.

Consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless. — Amy Hempel

Mexican marijuana, which he called the schoolboy's consolation. — James Purdy

(Later, I'l learn that's the structure of an elegy: lament, consolation; bad news, followed by good news.) — Mary Karr

You know what I dislike? When people use the future as a consolation for the present. I don't know if there is anything less helpful. — Stephanie Danler

Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man. — Henry David Thoreau

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it. — George Washington

There is a sort of consolation at the contemplation of the yawning abyss, at the bottom of which lie darkness and obscurity. Edmond — Alexandre Dumas

She needs to decide if it's me she wants. I sure as hell won't be the consolation prize. — Corinne Michaels

It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. Come on. — Jacqueline Carey

Premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow. — Oliver Goldsmith

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation. — Patricia Wentworth

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson