Consolation Quotes

We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

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

We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

The Bahá´í Faith is consolation for humanity.

Things never are as bad as they seem.

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

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

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

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

God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

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

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

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

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

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man

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

The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

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

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

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

Even success needs its consolations.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.

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

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