Consolation Quotes

309 quotes by 243 authors

Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character… — Will Self
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the… — Susan Sontag
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in… — Henry David Thoreau
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen! — James Thurber
[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation. — Orhan Pamuk
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation… — Jane Austen
What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence. — Brian Kolodiejchuk
To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She… — Brian Kolodiejchuk
but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking… — Jose Saramago
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and… — Christopher Hitchens
There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give… — Michael Cunningham
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story?… — Diane Setterfield
This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are… — Thomas Jefferson
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley
Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she… — Emma Bull
My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel â€”… — Joseph Conrad
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the… — Leo Tolstoy
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe.… — Eric Ambler
My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather… — Leonard Cohen

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