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

“If you have shed a thousand tears, expect a thousand blessings.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.

— Marvin Gaye

“After a long while, the giant forest turned into a clearing. Up ahead, a large waterfall rushed into a giant pool. Rippling curls tumbled…

— Valerie Dunsmore

I walk in the valley of tears, picking up some flowers of pain, putting them on the vase of hope, nurturing them with water…

— Ces Peta

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