Consolation Quotes

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.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.

Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope.

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.

He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed, and humiliated beyond all consolation.

Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.

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

This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away.

A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

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.

To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death.

Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.

At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.

Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.

Hope is the consolation of the world.

A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

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.

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

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.

The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.

Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe.

I've definitely taken a lot of consolation from animals in my life. There have been times when I've been really sad, and they gave solace and comfort and companionability more than a person.

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

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

Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

We could visit him, " suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.

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