Quotes About Solace

Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

Sad-hearted, be at peace: the snowdrop lies     Buried in sepulchre of ghastly snow;

If love leaves an echo, I said, she is still with me.

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

I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my childhood in and out of hospital. Books were absolutely my salvation during those years.

No matter how well you take care of the dying, no matter if you sit beside them every minute, every day—in the end they must go, and you stay. And you wave them off. You lie.

One of the great solaces of my life is that I no longer need to wonder whether I'll have children.

The weight of darkness pressing in on us from all sides was easier to bear with his voice to listen to.

En el colegio llevaba siempre un libro consigo. Cuando las cosas se ponían difíciles, el peso de la mochila la consolaba. Le ayudaba saber que el libro estaba allí, esperándola. En varios momentos del día, sentía los bordes dándole en el muslo, recordándole su existencia. Era como tener un amigo cerca diciéndole: «Sigo aquí y podemos pasar tiempo juntos más tarde».

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

to have company in misery seemed something to be grateful for.

A Principle, is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need

I took up my knife and fork and--- well, I simply held them, and kept still; for the boy had inclined his head and was saying a silent grace. A thousand hallowed memories of home and my childhood poured in upon me, and I sigh to think how far I had drifted from religion and its balm for hurt minds, its comfort and solace and support.

Quién estaba allí para tranquilizarlo cuando le arrancaron la alfombra de la vida bajo los pies dormidos?.

Who was there to soothe him as life's rug was snatched from under his sleeping feet?

These days he smoked and drank largely to solace himself for what drinking and smoking had done to him, so he drank and smoked a lot. He experimented, furthermore, with pretty well any other drug he could get his hands on

Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds to a light-house.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

To such an one we speak as those who are like us have spoken to us, and have so become our comfort in the wilderness of this life.

He longed for the river. Because water always helps.

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.

When I saw him three months later, he was still despondent. "I feel as if a part of my body is missing. I feel as if I have been dismembered," he told me. His voice cracked and his eyes were rimmed red. He had one great solace, however: that she hadn't suffered, that she'd got to spend her last few weeks in peace at home in the warmth of their long love, instead of up on a nursing floor, a lost and disoriented patient. *

So if you got one friend when you die, then you got something most people never have.

sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend