Consolation Quotes
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.
We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation.
Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.
The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.
He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.
The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.
The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.
If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.
If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy.
The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.
How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?.
Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.
Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.
One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.
