Consolation Quotes

309 quotes by 243 authors

One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some… — Pete Hamill
We are not entirely sure of the meaning of all of the symbolic stones and their placement. Neither Joseph Smith nor Brigham Young said too… — Loren C. Dunn
The man who is satisfied, because he thinks he is safe, who feels that he has religion enough, because he thinks he has enough to… — Gardiner Spring
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the… — G. H. Hardy
If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have… — Nancy Gibbs
There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations. — Abraham Isaac Kook
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. — Frank Moore Colby
When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make… — Kay Arthur
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find. — Wilfrid Sheed
What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as… — Richard Sibbes
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right. — David Landes
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. — Anthony Storr
That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling… — Brother Lawrence
Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our rest in thee.… — Charles Wesley
Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation;… — Alain de Botton
I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship — Forrest Gander
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. — Publilius Syrus
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. — Eric Ambler

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