“My only consolation when I am really sad is to love and to be loved.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority! — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
“I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me. — Katherine Heigl Copy Share Image
Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available. — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind there is no situation in life for which you cannot find some word of consolation in Scripture.” — Dwight Lyman Moody Copy Share Image
consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than usual propriety; it was that of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
With all profound love poured generously over Family, Religion and Nation, Humanity is left in lurch only to be conferred with a… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such… — John Sterling 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“I know I experience great consolation when my mouth is between a woman’s legs. I think it must be because I’m drinking… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“Writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don't get the thing you want the most.” — Lang leav Copy Share Image
Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image