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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“23rd.—With all the cares of life, and all its sorrows, yet I find that a life of communion with God is sufficient… — George Smith 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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'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
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 have found that the only consolation is never regretting anything that you do. Never look back, always look forward and continue… — Randolph J. Rogers Copy Share Image
All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
