Quotes About Solace

I think back to my dream of the boy, because in it I find solace. I like that word. I'm going to make it my word of the year. There is just something about that boy that makes me feel like I belong. Belong. Long to be . Weird word, but semantics aside, it is up there with solace .

The drink that characterized these new spaces quickly became a "normal" beverage: like the café itself, coffee subtly lost its foreignness. Providing what one café historian in Japan calls "dry inebriation," it was also seen as the drink of thoughtfulness, of solace, and it became associated more than any other drink with being "private in public.

I carry you always. You must trust in Me especially during times of desolation.

If you like solitude, you're never alone.

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

It was amazing, even, to think that the only thing left to people in their despair was reading.

In my madness I fancied that deep love meant warmth and kindness between two people, and some mutual solace in the hideous loneliness that is the lot of each one of us.

People don't know how to love. They bite rather than kiss. They slap rather than stroke. Maybe it's because they recognize how easy it is for love to go bad, to become suddenly impossible... unworkable, an exercise of futility. So they avoid it and seek solace in angst, and fear, and aggression, which are always there and readily available. Or maybe sometimes... they just don't have all the facts.

At difficult times in my life Nature has always offered me refuge. For me it is not 'environment' or a 'place of leisure and relaxation' but a temple in which I experience feelings that are almost religious.

I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.

Is it terrible to take solace in finding oneself better off than the huddled masses?

For solace at this time of sadness and confusion, Marguerite turned to a source that would remain a refuge to her throughout her life: books.

Whenever Mr. Peanuts is feeling especially lonely, he goes to the bookstore. That always cheers him up.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

When he was small he held the label inside his pillowcase when he slept. Only I know that. I was not a sleeper. His hand in sleep searched to find it. He would take the label between thumb and forefinger and just move it slightly against itself, over and back, as if the smallest friction was sufficient, as if with that he knew he was still in the world.

The only escape I had was watching movies. It was one thing that could take me out of myself - let me forget the world I lived in

When I was little, especially when I visited my mom in L.A., the only escape I had was watching movies. It was the one thing that could take me out of myself—let me forget the world I lived in.

They both smiled, and Peretur felt a little less lonely, a little less lost.

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

The powerful imaginative impulse that produced Kindred had its first test runs in the escapist fantasies of a child who needed to find or invent alternative realties. By temperament and by virtue of her strict Baptist upbringing, Butler was reclusive; imaginary worlds solaced her against the pinched rewards of the actual world, and books took the place of friends.

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

Noches en las que desearíamos que nos pasaran la mano por el lomo, y en las que súbitamente se comprende que no hay ternura comparable a la de acariciar algo que duerme

Just to see all the books lining the shelves would lighten my mood as if by magic. Of course, I didn't go to bookstores just to read articles on anatomy. I went because any book gave me comfort and solace at the time.