Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only…

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they…

— David Landes

Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when our life…

— 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

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

— Anonymous

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