Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“I know I experience great consolation when my mouth is between a woman’s legs. I think it must be because I’m drinking… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“Writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don't get the thing you want the most.” — Lang leav Copy Share Image
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in… — John Calvin 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
Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“23rd.—With all the cares of life, and all its sorrows, yet I find that a life of communion with God is sufficient… — George Smith Copy Share Image
I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all… — Laura Bohannan Copy Share Image
“...man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun. — Thomas Cogswell Upham Copy Share Image
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
One of the great consolations . . . is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God and love of all things in God - this is the sign that you are… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen! — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“In the end you can't save your soul and life by thought. But if you think , the least of the consolation… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends, — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
