It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also,… — Derek Mahon Copy Share Image
The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be… — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Copy Share Image
In 'Growing Stronger,' I expose my most painful moments and open my heart, thoughts and person, so that my experiences can inspire… — Thalia Copy Share Image
The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock… — Louis Pullig De Gouy Copy Share Image
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation -… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of… — John Jay Chapman 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
The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing,… — Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart Copy Share Image
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements...… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes.… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Oh! how great and glorious a thing it is to have before one the Word of God! With that we may at… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Kiss me, please kiss me But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation You know it makes me so angry… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
“It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
“What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The man who is satisfied, because he thinks he is safe, who feels that he has religion enough, because he thinks he… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may… — Rupert Holmes Copy Share Image
Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champion and… — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
