There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares. — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
“For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.” — Martha M Moravec Copy Share Image
“I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment in a welter of shudders and salted,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
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
“The first week at August's was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a… — Sue Monk Kidd 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
Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We are entirely in the care of Divine Providence, and it is very sweet to remain so in peace. The Cross is… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lived seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for… — Pete Hamill 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
All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot 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 shepherds - simple souls - came to adore the Infant Savior. Mary rejoiced at seeing their homage and willing offerings they… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A Wise Thought: Never Allow Your Own Sorrow To Absorb You, But Seek Out Other To Console, And You Will Find Consolation. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. — Paul Cezanne 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
We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having. — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
“... if Charles is undone, he'll find half his acquaintance ruined too, and that, you know, is a consolation.” — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence. — Shelagh Delaney Copy Share Image
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
