Consolation Quotes

309 quotes by 243 authors

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless. — Amy Hempel
Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for… — Winston Churchill
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind — Elias Canetti
[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious… — Jonathan Franzen
When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was… — Orhan Pamuk
The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation. — Roger Scruton
I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was… — Nicholas Sparks
Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it`s about happiness.` `But if you don`t have any principles, and if you don`t have faith, you… — Orhan Pamuk
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation. — Charles Spurgeon
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses… — Kazuo Ishiguro
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. — Victor Hugo
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
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at… — Stanley Kubrick
In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children, the faith of… — Edward Gibbon
Love is not consolation, it is light. — Simone Weil
No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as on that very… — Charles Spurgeon
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men and women are… — Steven Weinberg

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