Quotes About Solace

Books were escape. Books were freedom.

If you need to scream, find a safe place, then scream.

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

there's not much that can't be fixed by a decent cup of tea …

I have never really been an animal person. But I suddenly understood what comfort could be gained from burying your face in the soft pelt of another creature, the consolation of the many small

But in my experience there's not much that can't be fixed by a decent cup of tea…

But don't worry though, Nat, you're not totally alone. You've always got me.

But don't worry though, Nat , you're not totally alone. You've always got me.

Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.

Sans l'aimer lui-même, il était sûr qu'elle l'aimait et cette certitude le rassurait. Quelqu'un l'attendait, il avait un refuge, et maintenant plus rien.

Siempre he pensado que, cuando oscurece, todos necesitamos a alguien.

It is light that cheers us when we are downhearted, it is light that brings us solace out of suffering, it is light that beams upon us when we discover some new hidden truth of the universe—it is light that first greets us when we emerge into this world.

Maya didn't have much more distance in her. Still, she ran. Praying. She knew she should be praying for a church so that she could fall down on her knees and find some solace. But she didn't want to believe in a God who could take away a barely grown boy just trying to do some good.

A wise man will not trust too much those who admire him, even for his wisdom. He knows that an admirer is never truly satisfied until he can substitute pity for his admiration and disdain for his applause. Our admirers are always on the lookout for evidence of our collapse. They find a solace in the fact that our superiority was transitory and that we end as they do—old and useless.

I take refuge in my books.

It's a hobby for me, but I'm never alone if there's a guitar there.

La gente non legge forse i libri per fuggire da se stessa, e per tenere lontani i guai che ne scandiscono l'esistenza?

What am I going to do without music? I asked, aware of how pathetic I sounded, but unable to suppress the whine of disappointment in my voice.

The wonder and sustaining solace of it all is that were not alone: we're never alone if we live and we journey onward to new cities, new adventures and new dreams in the search for meaning, and purpose, and love.

I think I'd hoped to be released by it, and solaced, just by hearing her tell me. But it wasn't like that. I felt empty: the kind of emptiness that's sad but not distressed, pitying but not broken-hearted, and damaged, somehow, but clearer and cleaner for it. And then I knew what it was, that emptiness: there's a name for it, a word we use often, without realizing the universe of peace that's enfolded in it. The word is free.

So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who's trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he's gotta do tomorrow... I give them a little bit of an escape.

Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.