To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I can offer you no consolation, my friend," said he; "your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do?” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment in a welter of shudders and salted,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I could offer no consolation and I do not think he wanted any. There are situations in which consolation only threatens the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is the idea that "grace" did it all for me so I do not need to change my lifestyle. The… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares. — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. — Clementine Paddleford Copy Share Image
O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love you and to suffer for sinners. — Bernadette Soubirous Copy Share Image
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous. — Charles Buck Copy Share Image
Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence. — Lawrence Fagg Copy Share Image
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“There's one consolation," said Bee. "We're all used up. We'll never be of any use to him again.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thank God for our illusions, it gives us the rest of hope, and the rest of consolation” — H-Daboor Copy Share Image
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