"But the most wretched thing, is it not-is……" — Gustave Flaubert

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
• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all… — Edmund Burke
• If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one… — George MacDonald
• Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason,… — Saint John Chrysostom
• 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
• Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to… — Tryon Edwards
• For grief is crowned with consolation. — William Shakespeare
• In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have… — Albert Camus
• The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.… — Khalil Gibran
• Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I… — Charles Spurgeon
• In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. — Martin Luther
• I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. — Josh Billings

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