Consolations Quotes

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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
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have… — Thomas a Kempis
One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it. — Joyce Carol Oates
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner… — Norman Douglas
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in… — Christopher Hitchens
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations… — Helen Keller
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character… — Will Self
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the… — Susan Sontag
This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley
My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather… — Leonard Cohen
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge -… — Charlotte Bronte
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception… — Brother Lawrence
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But… — C.S. Lewis
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for… — Winston Churchill
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great… — John Green

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