Consolation Quotes

309 quotes by 243 authors

One of the great consolations . . . is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or… — Charles Spurgeon
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man — Martin Luther King, Jr.
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me. — Katherine Heigl
A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit. — Petronius
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in… — Simone de Beauvoir
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself. — Ambrose Bierce
Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God and love of all things in God - this is the sign that you are on this right… — Pope Francis
My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and… — Winston Churchill
. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable… — Laozi
My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil… — Thomas a Kempis
You know that you yourself are not always in the same state. If you are exact today, closely united to God, and a consolation to… — Vincent de Paul
You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must… — Vincent de Paul
Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the… — Francois Fenelon
You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for… — Vincent de Paul
Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when our life ends,… — Saint Francis de Sales
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls… — George Eliot
History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. — Will Durant
I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It… — Haruki Murakami
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. — James Harrington

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