Quotes About Solace

I should not have gone. When there is unhappiness, people should stay together; — shouldn't they, mamma?

Thank God for the cats, I thought, when they had the compassion to sleep next to me on the couch, or looked on curious but unfazed as I bawled. They were good companions to have in this strange new world of grief: nonverbal, affectionate, no more baffled by agony than they were by dishwashing.

I could see the solace she discovered. Here she could sing and dance and shout for glory among people who didn't care which pew she sat in, whose people she belonged to, and whether she was baking a roast for the church homecoming. They were people who yearned for one thing, and one thing only: a pure relationship with that part of the Trinity so often neglected in organized worship. The Holy Spirit. Slouching

As we talked in the half-darkness I assuaged an old unhappiness.

The dead alone feel no pain.

Oblivion—what a blessing ... for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

I didn't want to die, but I wanted to take my brain out of my head for a while.

For as much as I hate the cemetery, I've been grateful it's here, too. I miss my wife. It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.

There's times in my life when music has been an escape, the only thing that worked when everything else seemed broken, but at that moment I had nothing to escape from.

Ceea ce caut în fond nu este mântuirea, ci mângâierea, mai mult: o vorb?(una singur?!) de mângâiere; ÅŸi tocmai asta nu g?sesc niciunde. ... Iat? starea celui n?scut sub zodia tristeÅ£ii f?r? leac.

I looked for my salvation in the Utopia, but I have only found some solace in the Apocalypse.

Nobody is comforted in his sufferings by the thought we are all mortals, nor does anybody who suffers really find comfort in the past or present suffering of others.

When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.

When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place. I

Cuando estás en el fondo del abismo, encuentras en él un consuelo especial que no se halla en ninguna otra parte.

I guess my mom was all he had—the one flower that smelled like freedom. He

All these years later, I recognize this as the way that winners often speak of those they have harmed beyond repair. Trying to find some way to live with what we have done, we find solace in the idea that their doom was their own doing.

Her ticket to freedom lay in her lap. Ever an avid reader, Annie had escaped into books in recent months, when all else failed to calm her. As a friend, a book had advantages over the human variety. It was there whenever she needed it, it vanished as easily, and it never asked questions, expected witty replies, made awkward suggestions, or otherwise overcompensated for its own inability to right the wrongs of the world.

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics.

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

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