Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault,… — Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix Copy Share Image
“I find consolation in a no doubt apocryphal story of Pope John XXIII. Apparently at night he'd pray: "I've done everything I… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against… — Jane Austen 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
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
You know that you yourself are not always in the same state. If you are exact today, closely united to God, and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby… There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this… — Saint Blaise Copy Share Image
“God help me, what I wanted to do was to sweep her into my arms and clasp her to my manly bosom… — Rosy Thornton Copy Share Image
My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“This is no consolation,’ Roberta murmured, hiding her face. ‘Just mindless animal warmth.’ ‘I know,’ Jacques said. ‘But it’s all we have.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for… — Anonymous 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
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“When people are down and having problems or insecurities. Its better to slap them with the truth or scowl at them so… — Arriene Copy Share Image
As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong:… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home… I have… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight.… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
“[...] he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image