The future: A consolation for those who have no other. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“Whatever consolation you accept, that much penance will be deficient.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind there is no situation in life for which you cannot find some word of consolation in Scripture.” — Dwight Lyman Moody Copy Share Image
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available. — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me. — Katherine Heigl Copy Share Image
The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong,… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
“I could offer no consolation and I do not think he wanted any. There are situations in which consolation only threatens the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt,… — George Eliot 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
Some writers whom I respect very much, like China Miéville and some others of the New Weird, consider the true role of… — Vera Nazarian 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
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
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
If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“You begin to suspect, as you gaze through this you-shaped hole of insight and fire, that though it is the most important… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“If it’s any consolation,” he murmured, “I had a miserable time last night.” “Good. You deserved to.” She smiled. “Not that I… — Sabrina Jeffries 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
