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Quotes About Solace

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
~ John Ruskin
Well, I miss my wife, you know, I said. But I also miss the feeling of, I don't know, comfort. The sense you're where you're supposed to be, with someone you're supposed to be with.
~ John Scalzi
It was the 'he likes someone else and now I'm sad and want to go eat an entire pie' thing.
~ John Scalzi
He lived in a strange, silent house and looked out of it through calm eyes. He was a stranger to all the world, but he was not lonely.
~ John Steinbeck
And now the group was welded to one thing, one unit, so that in the dark the eyes of the people were inward, and their minds played in other times, and their sadness was like rest, like sleep.
~ John Steinbeck
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
~ John Steinbeck
Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.
~ Abraham Verghese
Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
~ John Bunyan
If you have a sorrow that you cannot tell to anyone, you can go to our Father in Heaven.
~ Johanna Spyri
My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.
~ Natasha Josefowitz
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
~ Maya Angelou
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
~ Albert Schweitzer
When the time comes that you have nobody to turn to, the Lord is always there for you. HE would never leave you.
~ Unknown
Dear music, thank you for being there when no one else was.
~ Unknown
Libro, libro. Cuando te pasen estas cosas, coge siempre un libro.
~ Marian Engel
Sometimes, in the deepest moments, there are no words. There is only food.
~ Roy Choi
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
~ Sheilah Graham Westbrook
Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.
~ Robert Ballard
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
~ John Steinbeck
Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.
~ Robert Southey
I'll be your crying shoulder.
~ Edwin McCain
Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?
~ Alice Walker
When people were never here for me, music always was.
~ Taylor Swift
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
~ Grace Pulpit