I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they… — Edward St Aubyn 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
Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept… — Jennifer Morse Copy Share Image
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate… — Boethius Copy Share Image
As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“When a child is lost there is no end to the self-torment a parent may inflict. When we love, and the object… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Let sickness prostrate us, have we not seen hundreds of believers as happy in the weakness of disease as they would have… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The chief consolation for nature's imperfection in the case of man is that not even for a god are all things possible… — Imperfection Copy Share Image
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well The child cries out when From the right… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Otherwise, though, the ambitions they had carried with them to Hawaii had slowly drained away, until regularity -- of schedules and pastimes… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will… — Alex Johnston Copy Share Image
Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel… — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer Copy Share Image
There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“If one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is a consolation – indeed,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes.… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
