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Quotes About Solace

mine onely faithfull frend In heauy plight and sad perplexitie; Whereof I sorie, yet my selfe did bend, Him to recomfort with my companie. Edmund Spenser The
~ Robert Galbraith
Reread your favorite novel, the one you only let yourself read any more when you're sick in bed.
~ Robin McKinley
The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.
~ Roger Scruton
Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.
~ Roger Zelazny
Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me.
~ Roger Zelazny
When you are going to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
~ Roger Zelazny
He's gone, Sara said. I can feel it. This time for good. Natalie hugged her, and she started to sob. Then Harry shattered the silence with a pained yell, hurling his thermos into the woods. With tears in his eyes, he said, I want a drink. I hugged him fiercely. It'll have to be one of my special chais, Harry. Have I made you a dirty one yet? I want mine filthy, he said. We trudged back to the museum together, and toasted Coby with dirty vanilla chai lattes.
~ Lee Nichols
Say, can thy noble spirit stoop To join the gormandising troop Who find a solace in a soup?
~ Lewis Carroll
She was independent by nature, but even the most independent person sometimes needed comfort
~ Linda Howard
Grief best is pleased with grief's society.
~ William Shakespeare
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
~ Albert Einstein
Rebecca non disse nulla, ma si buttò fra le braccia di Jasper Gwyn, il solo posto al mondo in cui, aveva deciso, sarebbe stato giusto piangere e non smettere per ore.
~ Alessandro Baricco
It is the nurse who holds the hand of a patient without a family, who talks to them while they take their last breaths, who aches for them while they die alone. It is the nurse who cleans the patient's body, wipes away the blood and fluids, and closes his eyes. It is the nurse who says good-bye to the patient for the last time," she said.
~ Alexandra Robbins
I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
~ Doris Day
Books were my passion and my escape from madness.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
~ Dorothy Parker
Each soul has its solace.
~ Dorothy Whipple
Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.
~ Marlon Brando
As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.
~ Nicole Kidman
The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
~ Alice Walker
...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.
~ Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
~ Seneca the Younger
I don't want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we'll rock through the night.
~ Tracy Chapman
When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.
~ Chanakya