Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements...… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
The night is beautiful, billions of lights are shining no no one else than you, listen to you if the stars are… — Brendan Cremers Copy Share Image
No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power,… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
“The stratagems by which briefly you ameliorated, even seemingly untwisted what still twists within you — you loved their taste and lay… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation. — J. C. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
You know that you yourself are not always in the same state. If you are exact today, closely united to God, and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God and love of all things in God - this is the sign that you are… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
One of the great consolations . . . is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image