Quotes About Solace

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

Worries go down better with soup.

Even before I learned what I was, books were my escape from the world. This place . . . bookstores, libraries . . . they're the closest thing I have to a church.

books were my escape from the world. This place . . . bookstores, libraries . . . they're the closest thing I have to a church.

bookstores, libraries … they're the closest thing I have to a church.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

One thing I have learned about grief," I said to her, "is that nothing anyone says to you is useful, but it can still be comforting sometimes to know you're not alone

I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

Empty calories taste so good when you're down in the dumps.

Later that night, Sylvie sat in bed with a book open in her lap. She was too sleepy to read, but the proximity of the book was comforting. Telling

In those years only the dead smiled, glad to be at rest.

Den Kummer dessen, der das Unglück auslöst. Diejenigen, die bleiben, bedauert man, die tröstet man. Aber diejenigen, die gehen?

I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let's put it to the test.

The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u.

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung...

Anything that keeps one from feeling alone can be a consolation. Not only can what others are suffering be a consolation while we are suffering, but even knowing what others suffered long ago can be consoling.

You read a lot?" Galina finally asked. "Yes. It's an escape into another world." She tried to keep her words light instead of sad, thoughts of her family in her head. "Sometimes that is the best part of a hard day.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

Friendship eased the heart and the mind, but there were times when the touch of arms around you healed an ache within that nothing else reached.

When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.