Solace Quotes · Page 3

True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.

— Gretel Ehrlich

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.

— Liz Carpenter

“We have been busy accumulating solace. Make us afraid of how we were.”

— Anonymous

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we would never need solace.

— Don Herold

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

— Mason Cooley

Before every game I pray, I find solace. It helps me to relax and prepare.

— Oscar

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

— Kate DiCamillo

“Suffering is sent to remind us to turn our thoughts towards God, who will give us solace.”

— Radhanath Swami

Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

— Imogen Stubbs

“I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to…

— Christina Baker Kline

I get huge solace from chaos, especially if someone else is doing it, too, like, 'Thank God it's not just me!'

— Jessie Buckley

Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.

— Clive Barker

I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.

— Johannes Kepler

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a…

— Studs Terkel

“A genuine show of love is like a light kindled in a dark room. It changes the whole atmosphere.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and…

— James Thomson

I felt 'Quantum of Solace' completely lost its way. We were lucky on 'Casino Royale:' it was the origin story of Bond.…

— Martin Campbell

Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed acquaintance, whom we like to have near us, whom we…

— Charlotte Bronte

I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was…

— Randeep Hooda

Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it…

— Mark Heard

Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the…

— Leslie Jamison

Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the…

— Lydia Sigourney

[On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a…

— Agnes Sligh Turnbull

You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to…

— Joyce DiDonato

Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when…

— Wendell Berry

I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned…

— James M. Barrie

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is…

— Mark Twain

Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension…

— Andrea Dworkin

“He'd wanted to - he didn't know. Break bottles. Break windows, crash cars. Burn down the world. Find solace at the bottom…

— Michael Montoure

I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as…

— Ian Fleming

The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

— Alice Walker

The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.

— Seneca the Younger

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

— Voltaire

“There is safety in numbness– there is solace in sleep.”

— Lang Leav

His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.

— Ann Aguirre

I find solace in immersing myself in my work.

— Rana el Kaliouby

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.

— Don Herold

Take what you need, and find solace where you can.

— Crispin Sartwell