Consolation Quotes

309 quotes by 243 authors

If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge -… — Charlotte Bronte
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that… — Paul Auster
I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened. — Arthur C. Clarke
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of… — Anne Rice
There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or… — Azar Nafisi
If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for… — Paulo Coelho
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauerâ€™s saying, â€˜A man can do what he wants, but not will… — Albert Einstein
Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end.… — Tobias Wolff
She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between… — Markus Zusak
You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to… — Sue Monk Kidd
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is… — Alan Lightman
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given -… — Dean Koontz
I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of… — Henri Nouwen
Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt,… — Lloyd Alexander
You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom… — William Shakespeare
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. — Orhan Pamuk

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