Quotes About Solace

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

And if you think you're alone. Put on my music. Because I'm going to be there for you.

In times of sorrow, be still.

Maybe there is no one way to deal with grief, but knowing that we're not totally alone is the best we can do.

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.

Hold me, Gerty, hold me, or I shall think of things.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Reading teaches me the answers to the problems I haven't had yet, or to problems I didn't even know how to describe. And when I feel less alone with what troubles me, it is easier to find solutions. A book to me is like a friend, a shelter, advice, an argument with someone who cares enough to argue with me for a better answer than the one we both already have. Books aren't just a door to another world-each book is part of a door to the whole world, a door that always has more behind it.

Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind

I always wish for the audience to feel less lonely when they leave the room. To have the film as a companion, as a shelter for themselves.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own.

I'll make some tea' she said, without consultation. The tears had not fully abated, and there were times when tea was the only thing.

I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom.

Rachael could find no solace in other people's tales of woe. Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.

LAST HAVEN TAVERN.

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.