Quotes About Solace

You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!

'River' is all about tension and release. It's about intimacy and solace. It's about staring someone in the face and not backing down.

A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection.

Amazing what folk will take comfort in when there's nothing else to hold on to.

A word I read comes to mind: solastalgia, a miserable tangle of solace, desolation, and nostalgia.

Sometimes a stranger was the safest place in your life.

solastalgia, a miserable tangle of solace, desolation, and nostalgia.

in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. Hope and keep busy, and whatever happens, remember that you never can be fatherless.

It was the best thing he could have done, far more soothing than the most eloquent words, for Jo felt the unspoken sympathy, and in the silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

Don't grieve and fret or think that you can comfort yourself by being idle and trying to forget. Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. Hope and keep busy.

When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.

I'm glad I can still sometimes drug my senses with a book.

Grief was not a state of mind, but a physical thing, a void, a deadening blanket of unbearable pain, precluding all solace.

Grief was not a state of mind, but a physical thing, a void, a deadening blanket of unbearable pain, precluding all solace. His only protection, and one that he had built himself

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

And if one had a sorrow, Maine was the best place to be.

Although in this life one may find solace in the crowd from God's radical demands, "In eternity you will look in vain for the crowd. You will listen in vain to find where the noise and the gathering is, so that you can run to it." In actual fact, "For the Infinite One, there is no place, the individual is himself the place.

I guess it's easy to lose yourself in a book," Leo said quietly, "when the real world doesn't feel so friendly.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Her salvation was the novels she read. On nights she thought it might br better not to be alive w/o Levi in the world, she opened a book and was therefore saved, discovering that a novel was as great an escape as any spell.

From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library...

So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?