Air Quote by Sophie Swetchine

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Martin Luther

Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in an object…

— Orhan Pamuk

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

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