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Quotes About Solace

He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.
~ Vladimir Lenin
And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing "I just want to be loved," cursing the earth and everything I have been taught:
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with er. Drunker. that was it.
~ Terry Pratchett
Music is what makes you feel joyful and makes me feel like I'm not alone. It's everything.
~ Natalie Prass
He is my solace although he is also my pain.
~ Karen Elizabeth Gordon
I'd gotten used to always talking to you inside my head whenever things got mixed up for me. It felt like you were still around, for a long time afterwards...
~ Katarina Mazetti
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Her spirit alternated constantly between spells of lyricism and spirit possession, making no philosophical distinction between the self alone and in relation to others, and unable to achieve the solace of a religious indifference.
~ Fumiko Enchi
our pets help us through hard times. "In dark hours," the poet W. H. Auden wrote of his dog Rolfi, "your silence may be of more help than many two-legged comforters.
~ Gary Kowalski
Smaller World: I know he's not really gone, she said, but the world still feels smaller to me today.
~ Brian Andreas
You are indeed a man of sorrows and have suffered much...pray be seated now, here on this chair, and let us leave our sorrows, bitter though they are, locked up in our own hearts, for weeping is cold comfort and does little good.
~ Homer
When the other person not only makes you feel insecure but actually seems to want to destroy you, it's obviously the end. The Quantum of Solace stands at zero.
~ Ian Fleming
They were always there for you, books, like a small pet dog that doesn't die.
~ Ian Sansom
It was the kind of place you went when your earthly troubles became too much for you and you were looking for a creative way to commit suicide.
~ Ilona Andrews
When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.
~ Greg Mottola
I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.
~ Monty Don
I've tried praying. It gives me comfort. But not as much as a cup of tea and a ginger nut biscuit.
~ Steven Herrick
Her body begs to be taken away and put into a warm bed with the sheets pulled high, even though nothing can help now.
~ Steven Herrick
If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past Security in human systems we're told will always always last Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast." ( History Will Teach Us Nothing )
~ Sting
I've been to every single book I know To soothe the thoughts that plague me so.
~ Sting
You have been my solace, my exorcism, but perhaps my place is beside his tomb, celibate and beautiful.
~ Storm Constantine
If I could not be with Beth, perhaps I could find some comfort in being close to her, however subjectively.
~ Storm Constantine
It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.
~ Story Musgrave
If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
~ Studs Terkel