Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It’s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo 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
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
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to… — Joyce DiDonato Copy Share Image
I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship — Forrest Gander Copy Share Image
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor… — Terry Pratchett 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
By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
