Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“When John Ashbery was asked where he turned for consolation, he replied, “Probably to a movie, something with Barbara Stanwyck.” —Deborah Solomon,… — Victoria Wilson Copy Share Image
To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a… — Elmer Davis Copy Share Image
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“You realize now that she turned to you as a form of consolation, to give her life a meaning and a purpose… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I see nothing that can unite us under the auspices of innocence and honor," he wrote to her. "In the future you… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
We are entirely in the care of Divine Providence, and it is very sweet to remain so in peace. The Cross is… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
