In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends, — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In the end you can't save your soul and life by thought. But if you think , the least of the consolation… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen! — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“...man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children,… — Edward Gibbon 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
“God help me, what I wanted to do was to sweep her into my arms and clasp her to my manly bosom… — Rosy Thornton Copy Share Image
My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this… — Saint Blaise Copy Share Image
You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend… — Aelred of Rievaulx Copy Share Image
“I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“You realize now that she turned to you as a form of consolation, to give her life a meaning and a purpose… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a… — Elmer Davis 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
Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun. — Thomas Cogswell Upham Copy Share Image
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all… — Laura Bohannan Copy Share Image
Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God and love of all things in God - this is the sign that you are… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
One of the great consolations . . . is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence. — Lawrence Fagg Copy Share Image
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous. — Charles Buck Copy Share Image
Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love you and to suffer for sinners. — Bernadette Soubirous Copy Share Image
The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. — Clementine Paddleford Copy Share Image
