Consolation Quote by Richard Ford Download Open image “At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.” — Richard Ford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consolation Courses Crafts Heart Instruments Stories
The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a story does not make immediate sense—one has to listen and keep it in one’s heart, in one’s blood, until the day it… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The moral of the story is that grief, to the person of feeling, is a permanent wound, not a transient state.” — Micheal Korda Copy Share Image
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like… — Richard Ford Copy Share
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It is also true that liberals who don't want guns are puny by and large. They're not risking anything, all they're doing is saying they don't like something. Liberals are quick to say this should happen and this should… — Richard Ford Copy Share
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we must come to know him. He may come as a little child, making enormous demands, giving enormous consolation. He may come as a stranger, so that we must give the hospitality to a stranger that we… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. — Clementine Paddleford Copy Share Image
Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun. — Thomas Cogswell Upham Copy Share Image
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
