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
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late. — Laurence Sterne 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
... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation. — Jane Frances de Chantal 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
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. — Josh Billings 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
He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“When John Ashbery was asked where he turned for consolation, he replied, “Probably to a movie, something with Barbara Stanwyck.” —Deborah Solomon,… — Victoria Wilson Copy Share Image
When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of… — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr Copy Share Image
If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power,… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The night is beautiful, billions of lights are shining no no one else than you, listen to you if the stars are… — Brendan Cremers Copy Share Image
Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Some writers whom I respect very much, like China Miéville and some others of the New Weird, consider the true role of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing… — Jane Austen 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
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
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside. — Richard Dawkins 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
History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. — Will Durant 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
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
“Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure; and the end, of consolation.” — Victor Joseph Étienne de Jouy Copy Share Image
“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.” — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling… — Ji-Hae Park Copy Share Image
If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
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