Consolations Quotes

41 Consolations quotes by 38 unique authors

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical… — Edmund Burke
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live… — Hector Hugh Munro
There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth.… — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. — William Samuel Johnson
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
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
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
I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food,… — P.D. James
Brothers and sisters, one of the great consolations of this Easter season is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not… — Jeffrey R. Holland
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations. — Edward Abbey
I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more… — Abraham Lincoln
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with… — Willard Van Orman Quine
We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations. — Abraham Isaac Kook
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
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
How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the… — F B Meyer
Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men. — Thomas a Kempis
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment. — Calvin Coolidge
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
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
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
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
The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life — Michael J. Fox
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
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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