Consolation Quotes · Page 9

The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

— Edward Abbey

Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe.

— Sophie Swetchine

[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.

— Orhan Pamuk

“I can offer you no consolation, my friend," said he; "your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do?”

— Mary Shelley

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

— Victor Hugo

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

— Forrest Gander

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

— Albert Camus

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's…

— Charles Dickens

“drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awake…

— Frank Bidart

Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them…

— Rose of Viterbo

The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is…

— Khalil Gibran

The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of…

— Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr

If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps…

— Paulo Coelho

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is…

— Dean Koontz

When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the…

— Stephen Batchelor

For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the…

— Thomas a Kempis

I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort…

— Meryl Streep

One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for…

— Pete Hamill

The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love…

— Robert Barron

As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they…

— James D. Watson

“There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lived seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open…

— Michael Cunningham

... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.

— Jane Frances de Chantal

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

— Carl Sandburg

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

— Lord Chesterfield

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

— Laurence Sterne

“The only consolation I had was I got to watch Jean-Claude climb the stairs. So sue me. He had a very nice…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

— Josh Billings

Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

— Orhan Pamuk

“Lovemaking is the consolation for living in the body, just as art is the consolation for living in the world.”

— Laura Argiri

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

— Alan Furst

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to…

— Cyril Connolly

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

— Will Durant

In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

— Mary Todd Lincoln

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

— Frank Moore Colby

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

— Anonymous

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

— Richard Dawkins