Consolation is about sharing loneliness and making it…

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -…

— David Foster Wallace

Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness…

— Dag Hammarskjold

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

— Anonymous

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only,…

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

— Cardinal Richelieu

Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.

— Thomas Cogswell Upham

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

— Clementine Paddleford

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

— Orhan Pamuk

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

— Julien Green

The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the…

— Albert Camus

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

— Thomas Paine

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt…

— George Eliot

It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we…

— Caryll Houselander

I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now…

— Janice Galloway

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,…

— Bruce Springsteen