Quotes About Solace

When I read a book, everything around me stopped existing. All the unhappiness in my family--my parents' bitter fights, my grandmother's sadness at having had everything taken away from her--disappeared. I merged with the characters.

Sabe qué es lo más indicado para curar la nostalgia? El confort. Esta sensación de que usted aprieta un botón y el mundo le responde.

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

He lay down beside the fawn. He put one arm across its neck. It did not seem to him that he could ever be lonely again.

Whenever I miss you. I just close my eyes and I see your smiling face and half of my problems automatically get solved.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Turn to the love of God when you don't receive any from mankind.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

They're an idea of home, I think. Words are. It really is like opening a door, isn't it, to open a book. If that's not too sentimental to say. Books, words, stories are a kind of solace.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Blessed are they that mourn: For they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4

God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember, God and one other person can be a family.

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world

Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a man's back. Books revealed their treasures to all who took the effort to seek.

In a loved one's beauty, there is solace, comfort in its presence, and the hope - no, the belief - the certainty that possession of so fine an ornament might be sustenance enough.

The Catholic faith gives such hope and solace to its followers as they seek salvation through a litany of shalts and shalt nots, but compassion for our fellows is a quality that requires little knowledge and is, I think, the true redemption, after all.

Reading gives us a place to go when we have to stay where we are.

reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay

All that reading took. It became as basic as any other need. To be lost in a novel meant you were not lost in your own life, the drafty, disorganized, lumbering bus of a house, the disinterested parents.

Chloe Carlson: But don't think I'm all alone without Lennon. Oh, no. I'll be perfectly fine. I still have my friends, Ben and Jerry. Riley Carlson: They're my friends too!

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