Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind. — Qiu Miaojin Copy Share Image
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory. — Brigit of Kildare Copy Share Image
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I've definitely taken a lot of consolation from animals in my life. There have been times when I've been really sad, and… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“[...] he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven… — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement.… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who… — Saint Francis de Sales 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
I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“My only consolation when I am really sad is to love and to be loved.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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