Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. "Come… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The only consolation of saying goodbye to someone you love is the glimmer of hope that someday after that goodbye there will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thank God for our illusions, it gives us the rest of hope, and the rest of consolation” — H-Daboor Copy Share Image
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or… — Saint Francis de Sales 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
I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power,… — Hadewijch 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
“But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem , and how small they are ; how we… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“Lovemaking is the consolation for living in the body, just as art is the consolation for living in the world.” — Laura Argiri Copy Share Image
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation. — Jane Frances de Chantal Copy Share Image
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“The only consolation I had was I got to watch Jean-Claude climb the stairs. So sue me. He had a very nice… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late. — Laurence Sterne 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
I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship — Forrest Gander Copy Share Image
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
