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Quotes About Solace

If she cries, he will nose his way into her arms and curl up there until she calms down and falls asleep. I'm so glad I didn't drown him.
~ Suzanne Collins
Lunch makes me feel a bit better.
~ Suzanne Collins
Spirit visits of this kind are remarkable because they stay with you and do not fade away in wispy tendrils when trying to remember them. In the dream, Susan walked up to me at a party and smiled. Standing face to face she assured me that she and the baby were fine. In the days following her death, I found great solace in this enduring message of reassurance. "But this wasn't a dream," Mike said, referring to
~ Suzanne Giesemann
If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.
~ Tom Scholz
To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
~ Hamza Yusuf
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
~ Mason Cooley
How we need another soul to cling to.
~ Sylvia Plath
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
~ Henry Miller
Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic.
~ Michael Dirda
Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't.
~ Sanober Khan
If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think uponand please myself with, while my heart's breaking.
~ Thomas Otway, The Orphan
Nakajima's presence didn't put any pressure on me, either. Quite the opposite: there was a warmth in the core of my chest when he was around.
~ Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake
Maybe home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you're at your worst.
~ Yara Bashraheel
True solace can be worth it's weight in gold.
~ Neal Shusterman
It was going to be alright. At last. For a while.
~ Charles Bukowski
She has saved me from everything that is not here.
~ Charles Bukowski
I felt so bad I did not need any further comfort for myself.
~ Chinua Achebe
Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.
~ Harvey Pekar
I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.
~ Sonia Rykiel
Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.
~ Tom Robbins
Whether you need the solace of normality more than you need your unique power is a personal matter, which only you may decide. But Sissy, don't let people such as Julian Gitche influence your decision. Julian needs your thumbs, huge and murmuring like the mouths of unexplored rivers – just the way nature made them – even if he isn't wise enough to understand that he needs them.
~ Tom Robbins
Recriminations and accusations peppered her visits to Up Beach, and when she told Papa why her eyes were puffy, she was relieved by his firm response. All she needed was him, which was lucky because he was all she had.
~ Toni Morrison
But he would only spend it on drink! You know what the working classes are!' 'Indeed, ma'am, and why should he not spend it on drink? Would you deprive the poor, whose lives are bad and miserable and comfortless enough, of the solace of a little relief from grinding poverty?
~ Kerry Greenwood
Religion fared badly in so much of the history he wrote about, and yet he was constantly surprised by how much solace he gained from places of worship. It wasn't redemptive, nothing to do with conscience—more the strange sense of meaningful emptiness he found in these places, a quality that allowed him to disappear effortlessly.
~ Kevin Wignall