Beautiful Quote by Amy Hempel

Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather,…

— Vera Nazarian

If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy.

— Rose Philippine Duchesne

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

— Voltaire

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

— Voltaire

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it has been.…

— Elaine Pagels

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe.

— Sophie Swetchine

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only,…

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

— Martin Luther