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
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation. — Jane Frances de Chantal Copy Share Image
Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most… — Anonymous 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
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me. — Katherine Heigl Copy Share Image
The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be… — Isak Dinesen 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
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
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
When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in… — Orhan Pamuk 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
The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation -… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed,… — Linda Sunshine 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
History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
