Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
When a putter is waiting his turn to hole out a putt of one or two feet in length, on which the… — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion,… — A.C. Grayling 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
We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Christianity offers not merely a consolation but a restoration - not just of the life we had but of the life we… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them,… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can… — Rupert Hughes 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
My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear… — Leonard Cohen 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
When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image