The future: A consolation for those who have no other. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“The only consolation I had was I got to watch Jean-Claude climb the stairs. So sue me. He had a very nice… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation. — Jane Frances de Chantal Copy Share Image
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship — Forrest Gander Copy Share Image
When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel… — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost… — Eric Ambler 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
Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation. — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image
“Like a consolation prize, the broken heart is often granted wisdom.” — Barbara Avon Copy Share Image
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
