Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock… — Louis Pullig De Gouy Copy Share Image
In 'Growing Stronger,' I expose my most painful moments and open my heart, thoughts and person, so that my experiences can inspire… — Thalia Copy Share Image
The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be… — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Copy Share Image
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also,… — Derek Mahon 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
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ...… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so:… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“His consolation was that at least he had known her as the world had not, and the pain of living without her… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may… — F.B. Meyer 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
These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“But it was a matter of great consolation to her, that what brought evil to herself would bring good to her sister;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He calls his brother. it is the wrong brother from whom to seek consolation, but what can he do? When it comes… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did... You stay in, we'll laugh… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
![“It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of…” quote by Lord Chesterfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b6e/lord-chesterfield-757_ailments_it-seems-to-me-that-your-doctor-tronchin_2516424.jpg)
