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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 Abraham Isaac Kook Francois de La Rochefoucauld Voltaire Ambrose Bierce Martin Luther King, Jr. J. C. Macaulay Claude Monet Johnny Mercer Robert Green Ingersoll Edmund White Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Theodor Reik Antonio Machado Bahá'u'lláh Martin Luther Orhan Pamuk Christina, Queen of Sweden Jonathan Raymond Roger Scruton Elias Canetti George Eliot Thomas a Kempis Paulo Coelho Michael J. Fox Nathaniel Hawthorne Walter Savage Landor Berthe Morisot Joseph Joubert Ruth Ozeki Carl Sandburg Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Timothy Keller
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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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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Things never are as bad as they seem.
Johnny Mercer

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

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

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

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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

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God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.
Joseph Joubert

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

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

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

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

25.
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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Hope is the consolation of the world.
Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

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

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

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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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It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
Plutarch

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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
Walter Savage Landor

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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

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Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.
Ruth Ozeki

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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

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

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