Console Quotes

160 quotes by 141 authors

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. — Francis Bacon
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. — Honore de Balzac
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five? — Lord Byron
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be… — Francis of Assisi
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. — Marguerite Duras
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. — Maxim Gorky
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it… — Ken Wilber
The Mother Trilogy will be released on the 3DS and later next year Mother 4 will have a worldwide release on our new HD console — Reggie Fils-Aime
Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. — Gretel Ehrlich
"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight.… — John Green
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of… — Isaac Asimov
We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at best. Second and… — Laura McPhee
The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the… — Maria von Trapp
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and… — Seneca the Younger
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. — Oscar Wilde
One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion… — Albert Einstein
Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as… — Eugene Roe
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the… — Edward Abbey
If a manâ€™s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies… — Edward Abbey
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair… — Thucydides

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