Solace Quotes

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

Slander is the solace of malignity.

God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart?

Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.

Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

The hope of reward is the solace of labor.

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort.

Music has always been there for me and is what's helped me through everything. It's like my solace.

Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.

My heart, independent of my logic, had reserved a place for my tormentor and my solace.

So people have been hurting, and I understand that, and it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me we'd be in a worldwide depression.

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.

Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.

True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.

It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.

When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.

I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.

He was my tormentor and my solace; the creator of the dark and the light within.

Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.

The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.

The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.

I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in the thought that we can always pull the plug.