Consolation Quotes
If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.
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.
In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.
When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.
There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.
There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.
Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.
If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling.
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.
Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation
We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.
Really, it is the Lord who carries the cross, for He knows how to make the soul content with little or no consolation and always to find strength in the words..."Thy will be done."
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?
Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.
I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!
To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from everlasting to everlasting His mercy is upon His people. Is not that a consolation?
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.
The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets it.
It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.
Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.
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.
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
