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Quotes About Solace

The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
~ Alice Walker
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There are few ills a good cup of tea won't help with.
~ Joe Abercrombie
To weep was a kind of luxury; the dead felt no loss, wept for no one and nothing.
~ Joe Hill
I wish there was a word that meant goodbye for someone who was already gone.
~ Joey Comeau
After you died, I got a puppy. I wear your clothes and tease her sometimes, in case you come back.
~ Joey Comeau
Lamplight, console me till then, harbinger warm of the night.
~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Through the many struggles in my life, my faith is sometimes the only thing I have to hold onto. God was my only friend.
~ Gretchen Carlson
Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
~ Joseph Conrad
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Can I hold your hand?" he asked. "The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to." "I'm here.
~ E. Lockhart
for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.
~ E.M. Forster
It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.
~ E.M. Forster
And that is why novels, even when they are about wicked people, can solace us: they suggest a more comprehensible and thus more manageable human race, they give us the illusion of perspicacity and of power.
~ E.M. Forster
when I don't have anything to read, I feel like a tortoise without a shell or a boat without an anchor. There is nothing to hide under. Nowhere to stop and rest. When I don't have a book, there is nowhere good or interesting to be, there is nobody to care about, nothing to hope for, and nothing to puzzle over. When I do have something to read, it keeps me breathing. It's the reward for all the other things. It's the think to look forward to, the reason for doing my day.
~ E.R. Frank
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen,Nobody knows but Jesus.
~ Anonymous
The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap.
~ Anonymous
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
~ Anonymous
When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be comforted for him, when his spirit is departed from him.
~ Anonymous
Hope was a sunrise, a friend in the alley, a whisper in an empty corridor.
~ Anthony Doerr
the remedy to every woe is prayer
~ Anthony Doerr
Hope was a sunrise, a friend in an alley, a whisper in an empty corridor.
~ Anthony Doerr