Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I can offer you no consolation, my friend," said he; "your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do?” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I see nothing that can unite us under the auspices of innocence and honor," he wrote to her. "In the future you… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them,… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of… — Sheila Cassidy 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
In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to… — Joyce DiDonato 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
Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling… — Ji-Hae Park 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
“Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure; and the end, of consolation.” — Victor Joseph Étienne de Jouy Copy Share Image
“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.” — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of… — Robert Breault 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
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of… — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr Copy Share Image
If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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