Consolation Quotes · Page 8

“For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.”

— Martha M Moravec

O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love you and to suffer for sinners.

— Bernadette Soubirous

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

— Robert Hughes

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

— Patricia Wentworth

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

— Charles Buck

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not…

— George MacDonald

There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.

— Richard Armour

The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

— Clementine Paddleford

“One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than usual propriety; it was that of…

— Jane Austen

With all profound love poured generously over Family, Religion and Nation, Humanity is left in lurch only to be conferred with a…

— Anuj Somany

Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Ball even tracked down Gander mayor Claude Elliott for the story. He said of the Gander 9/11 response, "We did the only…

— Kevin Tuerff

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in…

— Norman Douglas

“If it’s any consolation, I don’t think I would’ve had it in me to be his friend if we’d broken up. I…

— Adam Silvera

He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a…

— Alphonsus Liguori

“The stratagems by which briefly you ameliorated, even seemingly untwisted what still twists within you — you loved their taste and lay…

— Frank Bidart

What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of…

— Sheila Cassidy

My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared…

— Diane Setterfield

In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us…

— Junot Diaz

I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because…

— Billy Corgan

I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them,…

— Teresa of Avila

I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And…

— Josephine Winslow Johnson

The shepherds - simple souls - came to adore the Infant Savior. Mary rejoiced at seeing their homage and willing offerings they…

— Peter Julian Eymard

The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors.…

— Henry David Thoreau

One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.

— Lawrence Fagg

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

— Honore de Balzac

I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

— John Fowles

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to…

— Agatha Christie

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

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

“There's one consolation," said Bee. "We're all used up. We'll never be of any use to him again.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure; and the end, of consolation.”

— Victor Joseph Étienne de Jouy

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

— Perry Anderson

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling…

— Ji-Hae Park

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and…

— Roger Scruton

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

— Edward Albee

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

— Publilius Syrus

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

— Ambrose Bierce