We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don't get the thing you want the most.” — Lang leav Copy Share Image
“I know I experience great consolation when my mouth is between a woman’s legs. I think it must be because I’m drinking… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“I find consolation in a no doubt apocryphal story of Pope John XXIII. Apparently at night he'd pray: "I've done everything I… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault,… — Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix Copy Share Image
“I have found that the only consolation is never regretting anything that you do. Never look back, always look forward and continue… — Randolph J. Rogers Copy Share Image
Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is the idea that "grace" did it all for me so I do not need to change my lifestyle. The… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The valet blanched at the thought of four hours in a carriage. "I've sent for Dr. Fansher." As if that would shorten… — Carolyn Jewel Copy Share Image
My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Consolation All are not taken; there are left behind Living Beloveds, tender looks to bring And make the daylight still a… — Dan Pollock Copy Share Image
“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From the essay on Love, in which he describes as a wilderness experience his daily visits with his wife to a hospital… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“I asked him what kind of consolation a priest could offer to people such as the parents of Okawa school, and he… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image