Quotes About Solace

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Oh--this life, this life! There is comfort in it, they say, & I almost believe--but the brightest place in the house, is the leaning out of the window!--at least, for me.

Rien thought she was speaking to comfort herself as muc as to comfort Rien, and found that, in itself, strangely…well, comforting.

If happiness was now beyond his reach, he could at least know respite, and respite, with its lifelong rhythm, can in the awareness of it be called by the name of peace.

I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

thought to myself: William is the only person I ever felt safe with. He is the only home I ever had.

Una biblioteca no es algo por leer, sino una compañía —dijo, tras dar unos pasos más—. Un remedio y un consuelo.

A good book is like a good friend, do you know, Lacey? One you can turn to when the night is cold and you are lonely. And there is old Herodotus, standing ready to regale me with tales of his travels.

You could say she hid there, in the words, an escape within an escape...

A book is a friend a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still and there are not many friends who know enough to do that.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

Sometimes love just keeps a grieving person company. — Jeanette Gardner Littleton —

In some way, the dog filled a hole in his life, filled a loneliness he hadn't even known existed, and he wondered if it had always been the same for men; if somewhere back in time in a cave a man took a wolf pup and sat him down and thought, There, my life is better now.

Everything seems more bearable since I have talked to you

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.

I felt 'Quantum of Solace' completely lost its way. We were lucky on 'Casino Royale:' it was the origin story of Bond. Bond had the one and only affair that meant anything to him, and affected him throughout the rest of the series.

I was always looking for a place where the bad days didn't keep running by..." ~ Yuu

What's that?" Ethan asked. "It's a book," Monster said. "I know it's a book. I meant, how's it supposed to help?" "Most answers can be found in books," Monster said solemnly. "As a wise man who wasn't Eleanor Roosevelt once said, 'Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.

Night brings good counsel, my grandmother always told me.