Consolation Quotes

309 quotes by 243 authors

Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of… — Rose of Viterbo
I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that… — Thomas Jefferson
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives… — Bertrand Russell
Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation,… — Albert Einstein
I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We… — Albert Einstein
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily… — Stephen Batchelor
I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying… — Stephen Batchelor
When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you… — David Cronenberg
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where… — Barry Humphries
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends, — Christopher Hitchens
I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because it was true.… — Billy Corgan
And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up… — Roger Ebert
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own… — Ann Radcliffe
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. — Paul Cezanne
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Edward Abbey
When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything… — Edward Abbey
Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be deserted by all… — George Washington
Self-admiration giveth much consolation. — Gertrude Atherton
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. — Alan Furst
Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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