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Quotes About Solace

When she finally finished a few minutes later, it was hard to tell if she was even aware that the crowds had thinned... Watching them, I thought again of how we can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.
~ Sarah Dessen
School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.
~ Sarah Dessen
My own life felt flat and sad too much of the time; it was reassuring, somehow, to lose myself in someone else's
~ Sarah Dessen
He goes on to say that if we don't have the gift for effecting change, we have "the solace of criticism.
~ Saul Bellow
Sagen Sie mir ein Wort und trösten mich über meine lange Entfernung von Ihnen…
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you have a sorrow that you cannot tell to anyone, you can go to our Father in Heaven.
~ Johanna Spyri
Freedom all solace to man gives He lives at ease who freely lives.
~ JOHN BARBOUR
Freedom all solace to man gives;He lives at ease that freely lives.
~ JOHN BARBOUR
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
~ John Berger
If you have to cry, he said, and sometimes you can't help it, if you have to cry, cry afterwards, never during! Remember this. Unless you're with those who love you, only those who love you, and in that case you're already lucky, for there are never many who love you — if you're with them, you can cry during. Otherwise you cry afterwards
~ John Berger
Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.
~ Eugenie de Guerin
Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.
~ Cassandra King
The poet would befriend and comfort himself, if only he could.
~ Edward Hirsch
Her hands felt cold, but she was somehow warmed by the sound of a familiar voice.
~ Eileen Chang
No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
~ Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud
Well, people can get advice almost anywhere, but they can't find a companion almost anywhere. And far more than being an advice-giver or somebody who just plays sappy love songs, I really am a companion on the radio at night.
~ Delilah
I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.
~ Dennis Nilsen
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Who can live without personal retrospect? We will always glance back to our childhood, for we are shaped deep in our core by the impress of our parents, and we will always wonder how that molding determined us. Svetlana willfully believed in her happy childhood, even as she gradually understood that it was secured by untold bloodshed. What was it about this strange childhood that she would always turn to it for solace?
~ Rosemary Sullivan
Quietness rose within Aquila, easing his wild unrest as the salve was cooling the smart of his gashed side. But that was always the way with Brother Ninnias-- the quietness, the sense of sanctuary, were things that he carried with him.
~ Rosemary Sutcliff
The most trying hours in life are between four o'clock and the evening meal. A cup of tea at this time adds a lot of comfort and happiness.
~ Royal S. Copeland
Un buen libro es el mejor de los amigos, lo mismo hoy que siempre.
~ Ruben Dario
aconchegar minha saudade nos meus braços. Porque saudade é um estar em mim. Assim, por favor, não tentem me consolar.
~ Rubem Alves