A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the… — Vera Nazarian 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
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
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
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
The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which… — Matthew Zapruder 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
We must have faith during the period of our grief. We think that our afflictions will be greater than we can bear,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
If the nobles of the country really have the welfare of the people at heart, they should prevent and forbid music wherever… — John Tilbury Copy Share Image
GUESS WHERE I AM. CLUE? she texted back SWEAR U WON'T TELL A SOUL? U HAVE 2 ASK? I reluctantly texted,@ DINNER… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet… — Mary Shelley 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I've definitely taken a lot of consolation from animals in my life. There have been times when I've been really sad, and… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven… — Madison Cawein 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
It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been… — Mark Wahlberg 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
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
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