Quotes About Solace

They were good friends, weren't they? The best of friends. She ought to be able to walk into his room and ask him the reason for his absence this evening—and the reason for his absence from her bed. But she couldn't, because it was all a sham, their friendship, at least on her part, a disguise for her true feelings, an awful solace for not being his one and only. A thing without wings.

Late-night cafés stand alone, like campfires holding out against the fall of night. Offering solace to their customers, from endless empty evenings and mean rooms no one ever visits.

It was natural given such clear teachings that I readily took the blame for the disastrous situation in which I found myself. My understanding of my religion offered me little solace. Indeed, by encouraging self-blame, it deprived me of a sense of justice...of being the injured one.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart?

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts.

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.

For a while I was the only recipient of Bailey's kindness. It was not that he pitied me but that he felt we were in the same boat for different reasons, and that I could countenance my withdrawal.

Misery is a faithful company keeper, and Comfort was dissolving under its attention.

Grief is paradoxical: you know you must let go, and yet letting go cannot happen all at once. The literature of mourning enacts that dilemma; its solace lies in the ritual of remembering the dead and then saying, There is no solace, and also, This has been going on a long time.

He could now inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before

When the environment you live in and know most intimately does not place value on loving, a spiritual life provides a place of solace and renewal.

Christianity is not a religion that offers the solace of revenge to its adherents. For that you must go to the old women who know which herbs to pluck and what charms to say under a waning moon.

Nature and books and (later) mathematics saved me from complete despondency.

A requiem is meant to bring comfort.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

The first week at August's was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a brief time-out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

I could make do with that misery and take my solace from the water.

How can you have a book for a friend?" Abby asked. "You can't talk to them." "No, but they can take you away to another place. With books, the world feels safe.

God's message is that we are largely on our own. We are the ones who give moral guidelines body and life. You can take, if you will, your solace in heaven, but you must work out your ethics on earth.

If this is your path, as it is mine, let me offer whatever solace you may find in this monstrous benediction: May you discover the enlivening power of darkness within yourself. May it nourish your rage. May your rage inform your actions, and your actions transform you as you struggle to transform your world.

If not, there was always whiskey.

And that refuge was the most reliable place of all—between the pages of a book.