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Quotes About Solace

Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. The heroes in this book are no different. Everyone struggles. Take solace in that.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Everyone struggles. Take solace in that.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.
~ Tom Cochrane
Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.
~ Oscar Wilde
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. 
~ Oscar Wilde
His eyes that swam in death's dark night looked round For Athis, and he lay down by his side, Solaced among the shades to share his death.
~ Ovid
My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
~ Pat Conroy
Y qué era el luto? Cara larga durante una hora, un dia…pero no mucho más…(…) Pero ¿por lo demás? Coleman no se hacia ilusiones en el sentido de que por él iban a derrarmarse muchas lágrimas. El luto era algo reservado a un puñado de amigos verdaderos, o a las familias unidas que lo guardaban principalmente para que lo viera el resto de lal familia.
~ Patricia Highsmith
When we can't tell anyone else—we can always tell God.
~ Dale Carnegie
David cannot recall being hugged, kissed, or told he was loved by his parents. The only physical comfort he had was from "Mammy," an African-American housekeeper who recognized David's needs and provided solace. On Saturdays she'd take him to a movie, where she was allowed to sit with him in the whites' section. He is convinced that, "If I hadn't had Mammy, I would have been in much worse shape.
~ Dan Neuharth
Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.
~ Bill Hicks
Leave me my delusion, dearest! I must have that to cherish, and to comfort me, if I have nothing else!
~ Wilkie Collins
No substitute for the living, perhaps, but I wasn't given a choice. I could take solace in their presence or I could fall down in a heap, lamenting what I'd lost. The ghosts whispered to me, telling me to go on.
~ Christina Baker Kline
the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.
~ Christina Baker Kline
No substitute for the living, perhaps, but I wasn't given a choice. I could take solace in their presence or I could fall down in a heap, lamenting what I'd lost.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Whatever solace TJ Farrelly sought, he would have to find it on his own. She had racked her brain until she had realized the truth: she had none to give.
~ Christopher Golden
We are very bad at scale. The things that live in the soil are too small to care about; climate change too large to imagine. We are bad at time, too. We cannot remember what lived here before we did; we cannot love what is not. Nor can we imagine what will be different when we are dead. We live out our three score and ten, and tie our knots and lines only to ourselves. We take solace in pictures, and we wipe the hills of history.
~ Helen Macdonald
Sometimes, a few times, I felt my father must be sitting near me as I sat on a train or in a café. This was comforting. It all was. Because these were the normal madnesses of grief.
~ Helen Macdonald
Toi dont la douceur est si douce Qu'elle console l'Inconnu !
~ Henri Barbusse
All is over…I have nothing but you, remember that." "I can never forget what is my whole life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Se fosse stata un'amante della lettura, Paola avrebbe senza dubbio trovato conforto nei molti romanzi dedicati all'argomento.
~ Lesley Lokko
She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else.
~ Lev Grossman
She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please, just be somewhere else and somebody else.
~ Lev Grossman
she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else.
~ Lev Grossman