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Consolation Quotes

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We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
Abraham Isaac Kook

Authors on Consolation Quotes: Publilius Syrus Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Theodor Reik Edmund White Orhan Pamuk Antonio Machado Bahá'u'lláh Martin Luther Jonathan Raymond Roger Scruton Christina, Queen of Sweden George Eliot Thomas a Kempis Elias Canetti Nathaniel Hawthorne Walter Savage Landor Paulo Coelho Michael J. Fox Joseph Joubert Ruth Ozeki Berthe Morisot Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Timothy Keller Carl Sandburg Marcel Proust Wilfrid Sheed Plutarch Michael Kimmelman Joyce Carol Oates Sue Monk Kidd Brian Kolodiejchuk Norm MacDonald Sigmund Freud
2.
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
Voltaire

3.
We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
Christina, Queen of Sweden

4.
The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.
Roger Scruton

5.
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
David Nicholls

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They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
Norm MacDonald

7.
The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.
Albert Einstein

8.
If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.
Paulo Coelho

9.
To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.
Theodor Reik

10.
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
Simone Weil

11.
A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
Berthe Morisot

12.
We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

13.
The Bahá´í Faith is consolation for humanity.
Bahá'u'lláh

14.
Things never are as bad as they seem.
Johnny Mercer

15.
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
Thomas a Kempis

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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
Elias Canetti

17.
The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.
Michael J. Fox

18.
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Carl Sandburg

19.
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
Wilfrid Sheed

20.
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
Marcel Proust

21.
The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.
Shelagh Delaney

22.
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
J. C. Macaulay

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

24.
God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.
Joseph Joubert

25.
The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.
Michael Kimmelman

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It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Publilius Syrus

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One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.
Joyce Carol Oates

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If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.
Saadi

29.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli

30.
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
Ambrose Bierce

31.
Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.
Claude Monet

32.
The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.
Timothy Keller

33.
We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

34.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
Martin Luther King, Jr.

35.
What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence.
Brian Kolodiejchuk

36.
How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.
Sue Monk Kidd

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The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
Sigmund Freud

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To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death.
Publilius Syrus

39.
Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
Luc de Clapiers

40.
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.
Julien Green

41.
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.
Christopher Hitchens

42.
Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

43.
Hope is the consolation of the world.
Robert Green Ingersoll

44.
The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.
Edmund White

45.
The future: A consolation for those who have no other.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

46.
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
Antonio Machado

47.
[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.
Orhan Pamuk

48.
Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
Jonathan Raymond

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Even success needs its consolations.
George Eliot

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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 away.
Nathaniel Hawthorne