Quotes about Consolation

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We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed — Veronica Roth, Divergent
Philosophers console themselves with explanations. — Marty Rubin
It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not — Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
I have suffered great losses and have been blessed with great consolations, but whatever life may give me or take away, — Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them — Abraham Lincoln
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which — Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for the — Héloïse d'Argenteuil, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each bles — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them. — Perry Anderson, Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas
This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has mad — Thomas Ligotti, The Nightmare Factory
drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite,within       I am awakerepairing — Frank Bidart, Star Dust
The stratagems by which briefly youameliorated, even seeminglyuntwisted what still twists within you —you loved their ta — Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival: Poems
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted. — Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
I say, indeed: "consolation in the nonsentience of nature." For nonsentience is consoling; the world of nonsentience is — Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
Do not go to my grave. Mary knows, I am not there. Look for me in between pages and on people’s lips.Do not go to my old — Kamand Kojouri
Saint John, in a moment of confusion, tells us not to love the world because "all that is in the world, the lust of the — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Both tears and sweat are salty. but none of them are faulty. the tears can get you somewhere, the sweat will make you — Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot Love: When A Call From The Other Side Takes Its Own Side
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the — William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood
Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.Scripps: No.Dakin: It's c — Alan Bennett, The History Boys