Consolation Quotes

309 quotes by 243 authors

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion. — Czeslaw Milosz
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception… — Brother Lawrence
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks. — Voltaire
And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or… — Ahdaf Soueif
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and… — Vladimir Lenin
I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?"… — Gail Carriger
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in… — Ian Mcewan
When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in an object that… — Orhan Pamuk
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but… — Karl Marx
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged… — Ralph Ellison
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead,… — Jack Kerouac
I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And if this is… — Josephine Winslow Johnson
Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? Itâ€™s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" â€œblue — Gayle Forman
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our lives… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work… — Thomas Ligotti
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it… — Jane Austen
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But… — C.S. Lewis
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that. — David Nicholls

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