Affliction Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather,…

— Vera Nazarian

For grief is crowned with consolation.

— William Shakespeare

If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

— Laurence Sterne

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

— Martin Luther

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only,…

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

— Lord Chesterfield

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow,…

— Tryon Edwards

For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche