Consolation Quotes · Page 6

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

— Wilfrid Sheed

The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life

— Michael J. Fox

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

— Jeff Tweedy

“Thank God for our illusions, it gives us the rest of hope, and the rest of consolation”

— H-Daboor

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The only consolation of saying goodbye to someone you love is the glimmer of hope that someday after that goodbye there will…

— Anonymous

“There's one consolation," said Bee. "We're all used up. We'll never be of any use to him again.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to…

— Agatha Christie

Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a…

— Richard Cecil

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things…

— Sue Monk Kidd

We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that…

— Anonymous

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do…

— Bertrand Russell

[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an…

— Jonathan Franzen

Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation…

— Craig Brown

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed…

— Plutarch

The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's…

— Bertrand Russell

but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up…

— Jose Saramago

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the…

— G. H. Hardy

We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with…

— Brother Lawrence

Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so:…

— Abraham Lincoln

This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of…

— Thomas Ligotti

“His consolation was that at least he had known her as the world had not, and the pain of living without her…

— Colm Tóibín

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the…

— Phyllis McGinley

Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

— John Fowles

I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

— Honore de Balzac

One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.

— Lawrence Fagg

The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

— Clementine Paddleford

There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.

— Richard Armour

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not…

— George MacDonald

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

— Charles Buck

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

— Patricia Wentworth

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

— Robert Hughes

O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love you and to suffer for sinners.

— Bernadette Soubirous

“For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.”

— Martha M Moravec

“I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment in a welter of shudders and salted,…

— Anne Rice

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

— Theodor Reik

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually…

— Arthur C. Clarke