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But it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that he is attractive - to some woman.
— Agatha Christie
We must, between periods of digging in the dark, endeavour always to transform our tears into knowledge.
— Alain De Botton
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
— Aldous Huxley
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
If none of God's saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. When
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
— Abraham Isaac Kook
Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
— Calvin Coolidge
Have you ever heard the earth breath?
— Kate Chopin
One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Even success needs its consolations.
— George Eliot
The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life
— Michael J. Fox
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
— Edward Abbey
[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.
— Perry Anderson
If Arsenal played like this all the time they could win the league
— Owen Hargreaves
When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.
— Paullina Simons
Thunder Road' knows who I am and what I feel, and that is one of the consolations of art.
— Nick Hornby
Does it matter if you get the presents anyway? she said, making a direct appeal to greed.
— Terry Pratchett
The sight washed over me like a damn wave that you never see coming until it's too late and you're face down eating sand.
— Buffy Andrews
Knocking back the wine and reaching for the cheap consolations of kimchee-scented Kleenex fiction
— Maureen Corrigan
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.
— Teresa Of Avila
The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.
— John Fowles
One of the great consolations ... is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
Nico looked up at me, and I finally understood that he was waiting for Jude, not for Clancy.
— Alexandra Bracken
To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.
— Theodor Reik
People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.
— Rumer Godden
Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.
— Mason Cooley
One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.
— Lawrence Fagg
Speaking the truth gets a little easier each time you do it.
— Rory Freedman
I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.
— P.D. James
Whereas the consolations of religion are mainly personal, the burdens are social and political as well as personal.
— A.C. Grayling
It's easier to get divorced than to engage in the soul-stretching personal growth that is inevitable in marriage
— Laura M. Brotherson
If none of God's saints were troubled and tried - we would not know half so well the consolations of divine grace.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
— William Samuel Johnson