Belief Quote by Orhan Pamuk

I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it has been.…

— Elaine Pagels

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

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

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

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

— Martin Luther

Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.

— Karen Armstrong

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

— Erica Jong

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

People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own.…

— Carl Jung

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

— Voltaire

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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