Consolation Quotes
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Consolation Quotes & Sayings
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I wish to soothe him; yet can I counsel one so infinitely miserable, so destitute of every hope of consolation, to live?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
We must, between periods of digging in the dark, endeavour always to transform our tears into knowledge.
— Alain De Botton
The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.
— Edmund White
Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation.
— Kiana Davenport
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
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
— John Vianney
Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.
— Roger Scruton
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.
— George MacDonald
We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.
— Laura Bohannan
Fresh wounds, in later years, often make interesting scars.
— Orlando Ortega-Medina
I can offer you no consolation, my friend," said he; "your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do?
— Mary Shelley
One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.
— Joyce Carol Oates
My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.
— Samuel Rutherford
Even success needs its consolations.
— George Eliot
In hock to the excitements and commercial advantages of rage, the news cruelly ignores the project of consolation.
— Alain De Botton
It's a great consolation to think that when we've long been in the grave our noses will still be strolling the earth.
— Milan Kundera
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.
— Julien Green
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets it.
— Conor McPherson
We are entirely in the care of Divine Providence, and it is very sweet to remain so in peace. The Cross is never lacking; may it be our consolation.
— Rose Philippine Duchesne
Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God and love of all things in God - this is the sign that you are on this right path.
— Pope Francis
We are beasts and this is our consolation.
— Joyce Carol Oates
In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.
— Willis Gaylord Clark
You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time
— Vincent De Paul
There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination.
— Robert Gottlieb
He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You ...
— Pio Of Pietrelcina
Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.
— Mary Balogh
It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.
— Cyril Connolly
We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.
— Sue Monk Kidd
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
— Thomas Jefferson
Things never are as bad as they seem.
— Johnny Mercer
Should - a word of anguish rather than consolation.
— Gena Showalter
Naturally, I seek consolation in other people's suffering.
— Paulo Coelho
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Later, I'l learn that's the structure of an elegy: lament, consolation; bad news, followed by good news.)
— Mary Karr
Jesus whispers consolation; I cannot refuse it; I will sit under His shadow with great delight.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
— Norm MacDonald
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
Art can bring us consolation as individuals," he said, "but it is powerless against reality.
— Stefan Zweig
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
There's one consolation," said Bee. "We're all used up. We'll never be of any use to him again.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
— Henry David Thoreau
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
— Edward Abbey
It is no consolation to reflect that every cause itself is an effect, making the search for causes and reasons a fool's errand.
— Zia Haider Rahman
But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. "Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light." 240.
— Maggie Nelson
In the end you can't save your soul and life by thought. But if you think, the least of the consolation prizes is the world.
— Saul Bellow
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
— David Nicholls
Consolation from a stranger is better than discouragement from a friend.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
— Martin Luther
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
— Marcel Proust
Those who are absent, by its means become present: correspondence is the consolation of life. - VOLTAIRE, Philosophical Dictionary
— Colin Dexter
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