"When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and……" — Gerard De Nerval
"When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation."
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16 Quotes by Gerard De Nerval
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It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything,…
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Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!
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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all…
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I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not.…
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The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible…
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Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a…
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İstanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly…
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Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned…
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How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything…
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Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though…
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Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
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I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins,…
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More Consolation Quotes
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit…
— Brendan Behan
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all…
— Edmund Burke
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If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one…
— George MacDonald
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Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason,…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to…
— Tryon Edwards
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For grief is crowned with consolation.
— William Shakespeare
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have…
— Albert Camus
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The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.…
— Khalil Gibran
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Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I…
— Charles Spurgeon
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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
— Martin Luther
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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
— Josh Billings
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