Console Quotes
160 quotes by 141 authors
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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
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
— Honore de Balzac
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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
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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
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Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.
— Marguerite Duras
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
— Maxim Gorky
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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
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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
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Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.
— Gretel Ehrlich
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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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
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If a man’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
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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
Who Wrote These Console Quotes
141 authors contributed a total of 160 Console Quotes, led by these top contributors: