Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind. — Qiu Miaojin Copy Share Image
“Whatever consolation you accept, that much penance will be deficient.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“Lovemaking is the consolation for living in the body, just as art is the consolation for living in the world.” — Laura Argiri Copy Share Image
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
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
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ...… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or… — Richard Sibbes 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
“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
You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
When a putter is waiting his turn to hole out a putt of one or two feet in length, on which the… — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
“My child, I am the Lord Who gives strength in the day of trouble. Come to Me when all is not well… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
“The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.” — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
