Consolation Quotes

309 quotes by 243 authors

There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to… — A.C. Grayling
For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I… — Christopher Columbus
I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed… — Rachel Cusk
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's… — Richard Dawkins
The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside. — Richard Dawkins
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner… — Norman Douglas
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy.… — Umberto Eco
When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal… — Angie Harmon
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in… — Christopher Hitchens
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. — Robert Hughes
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. — Victor Hugo
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations… — Helen Keller
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer. — Thomas a Kempis
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him,… — Claude Levi-Strauss
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people… — Hilary Mantel
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. — Chuck Palahniuk
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. — Carl Sandburg

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