Quotes About Solace

Often, in death, everything else fails. We are left only with the music and the meaning of poetry.

The truth is, life is difficult and intense. The beauty is that we have art and love to give us solace, and joy, a reason to live and a reason to care about what happens in, and to, the world.

I pulled her hand farther around my waist. She leaned her head between my shoulder blades, muttering to herself

Books had always been her solace. Novels gave her the space to be bold, brave, beautiful, if only in her imagination.

Books had always been her solace; novels gave her the space to be bold, brave, beautiful, if only in her own imagination.

Sometimes, when you are scared, it just helps knowing that someone else is here.

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

In the networked world, there are fewer Eleanor Rigbys to sing about, for even the loneliest among us can venture out with relative anonymity and find solace in the comfort of others' lives, particularly if those lives appear equally mundane. By the way, if you don't know who Eleanor Rigby is, you probably were born after 1985 and need to listen to some real music.

I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!

Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.

Minute by minute, then hour by hour, then day by day. Work is solace, he said, friends are comfort. Life is for the living. You and I know that, even though we spend so much time with the dead - maybe because of that we know we have to live. Chale has been a great help to me. That's good, she said, thinking of the priest she'd suggested Morris talk to. You can ... you know, anytime. Yes. His lips curved. I know. You're work, and a friend, so have been both solace and comfort.

What solace are lapidary paradoxes for the loves of the body?

I lived for the night, because I could go over to your house. It was the only thing that kept me going. You were the only thing, actually. It was… you.

Memories were especially dear, when they were all you had left of a loved one to hold on to.

I am safe, he thought to himself. With her, and her alone, I am safe… —

The past is what it is—good and bad, it's written and unchanging. And there's solace to be had in that.

The past is what it is—good and bad, it's written and unchanging. And there's solace to be had in that." Tears pricked her eyes. "What do you mean?" There was a long pause. "The good parts are more luminous because you can trust them. And the bad parts can't get any more tragic for precisely the same reason. The past is safe because it is indelible.

Right Understanding means feeling terrible, remembering pain is finite, and taking some solace from that remembering. And, when things are pleasant, even splendidly pleasant, remembering impermanence doesn't diminish the experience--it enhances it [p. 33]

I want you at home so that any time I start getting panicky, I can stick my head in and look at you and take a few deep breaths. It's for my sake, not yours.

my favourite emotions include 'brief calmness in good weather' and 'i am the only person alive

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.