Consolation Quotes

309 quotes by 243 authors

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it,… — Brendan Behan
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical… — Edmund Burke
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of… — George MacDonald
Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my… — Saint John Chrysostom
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 tool of the… — Phyllis McGinley
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I… — Tryon Edwards
For grief is crowned with consolation. — William Shakespeare
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst… — Albert Camus
The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of… — Khalil Gibran
Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found that those people… — Charles Spurgeon
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. — Martin Luther
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. — Josh Billings
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live… — Hector Hugh Munro
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. — George Santayana
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity… — John Jay Chapman
The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand of God, who… — Brother Lawrence
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all… — William Gurnall
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.… — Richard Dawkins
I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them, thinking of Him… — Teresa of Avila

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