I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.” — Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation. — J. C. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations. — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right. — David Landes Copy Share Image
The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The chief consolation for nature's imperfection in the case of man is that not even for a god are all things possible… — Imperfection Copy Share Image
Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the… — Beilby Porteus Copy Share Image
“He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Art can bring us consolation as individuals,” he said, “but it is powerless against reality.” — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
“But I will finally be with Jesus. That is my one consolation, and it is enough to make death almost no worry… — Therese May Copy Share Image
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
