I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. "Come… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“After all, nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all… — Lloyd D. Newell Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such… — John Sterling Copy Share Image
If the nobles of the country really have the welfare of the people at heart, they should prevent and forbid music wherever… — John Tilbury Copy Share Image
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to… — Joyce DiDonato Copy Share Image
The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem , and how small they are ; how we… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power,… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence. — Shelagh Delaney Copy Share Image
“... if Charles is undone, he'll find half his acquaintance ruined too, and that, you know, is a consolation.” — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
A Wise Thought: Never Allow Your Own Sorrow To Absorb You, But Seek Out Other To Console, And You Will Find Consolation. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having. — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
“I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment in a welter of shudders and salted,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
