Consolation Quotes

Even success needs its consolations.

— George Eliot

The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

— Berthe Morisot

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

— Marcel Proust

“Be still, and know that I will always love you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.”

— Roger Scruton

Things never are as bad as they seem.

— Johnny Mercer

“Being free to suffer alone is itself a consolation.”

— Hélène Berr

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

— Victor Hugo

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.

— Norm MacDonald

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

— Edmund White

Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

— David Landes

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

— Elbert Hubbard

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.

— J. C. Macaulay

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”

— Nietzsche

We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

— Abraham Isaac Kook

No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as…

— Charles Spurgeon

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more…

— Anonymous

Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most…

— Anonymous

To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from…

— Charles Spurgeon

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of…

— Robert Breault

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

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the…

— Stephen Batchelor

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

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

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

The shepherds - simple souls - came to adore the Infant Savior. Mary rejoiced at seeing their homage and willing offerings they…

— Peter Julian Eymard

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

Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which…

— George Eliot

All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies…

— James Martineau

“I asked him what kind of consolation a priest could offer to people such as the parents of Okawa school, and he…

— Richard Lloyd Parry

“From the essay on Love, in which he describes as a wilderness experience his daily visits with his wife to a hospital…

— Frederick Buechner

“For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing…

— Alan Furst

“The valet blanched at the thought of four hours in a carriage. "I've sent for Dr. Fansher." As if that would shorten…

— Carolyn Jewel

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most…

— Anonymous

“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Consolation   All are not taken; there are left behind Living Beloveds, tender looks to bring And make the daylight still a…

— Dan Pollock

My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me…

— Thomas a Kempis