Solace Quotes

167 quotes by 148 authors

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring. — Rebecca Lim
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful. — Seneca the Younger
A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates. — Saadi
When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness. — Joseph Brodsky
I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Religion would certainly be more relevant to the hurting masses of humanity if people could express their hopes and dreams and pain and anguish to… — Joseph Girzone
Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take. — Ani DiFranco
Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a… — Leslie Jamison
The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace,… — Mark Twain
How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the… — Eugene Field
The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful… — Bobby Knight
At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace. — Camille Pissarro
Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If… — Walter J. Phillips
Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How,… — William Wordsworth
I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people. — Brigid Schulte
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had. — Mason Cooley
Writing is the supreme solace. — W. Somerset Maugham

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