Comfort Quote by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

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

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Martin Luther

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

A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all…

— J. C. Ryle

If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy.

— Rose Philippine Duchesne

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

The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that…

— Hannah More

Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe.

— Sophie Swetchine

For grief is crowned with consolation.

— William Shakespeare