With a beautiful girl I could have consoled myself that…

“I hope you don’t mind the intrusion,” she said. “I thought we’d air out your chambers while you were downstairs at breakfast.” “We?” he…

— Teresa Medeiros

“It reminded him of a science fiction novel that he'd read once; in it, the characters had a tendency to say ominously that 'winter…

— Ais

“And the thought consoled me, as it does now: everything you believe you have imagined is real. You have only to outlive it.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The same is true for your fiancée, Bewildered. She is your joy on wheels whose every experience is informed and altered by the fact…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been…

— Geraldine Brooks

A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

— Immanuel Kant

“Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence…

— Colum McCann

“She consoled herself with the thought that she looked terrifying.”

— Virginia Lowell

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is…

— Anglican clergyman

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to…

— Anonymous

“She wanted to complain, not to be consoled; and it was by exclamations of complaint only, Emily learned the particular circumstances of her affliction”

— Ann Radcliffe

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

— Jan Karon

“Be consoled in knowing the world depends upon the small beating in your heart.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.”

— Thomas Hardy