Consolation Quotes

309 quotes by 243 authors

The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life — Michael J. Fox
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money… — Henry David Thoreau
Living Holy Week following Jesus means learning how to come out of ourselves to reach out to others, to go to the outskirts of existence,… — Pope Francis
The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart. — Timothy Keller
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day. — Rose Macaulay
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation. — Marcel Proust
To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death. — Publilius Syrus
Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise… — Andre Gide
If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation. — Saadi
This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect… — Mother Teresa
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend… — Edmund Burke
If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith,… — Dorothy Day
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. — Antonio Machado
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late. — Laurence Sterne
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought… — Gerard De Nerval
I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.'… — Jay Roach
No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we… — Aelred of Rievaulx

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