Quotes About Solace

It was a constant pattern for Nico: find some sort of solace and comfort, only to have it ripped away. Now here was Solace in his lap, sleeping like a baby. What would come and tear him away?

by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds I've discovered so far).

Poetry was nothing but words to say over a grave, something to throw into a hole in the ground.

I suppose if alcohol had been available to me that November, I would have become a drunk. As it was, the only thing I could lose my miserable self in was books.

And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us from being swept away into the night.

I'm sure she felt it too, because we'd always hold each other very tight after times like that, as though that way we'd manage to keep the feeling away.

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

haven, a place to rest and get clean and whole

consolation

Which is just another way of blaming, and perhaps the best way, because there is solace and a certain stoical peace in blaming everything on the rain, and then blaming something as uncontrollable as the rain on something as indifferent as the Arm of the Lord. Because nothing can be done about the rain except blaming. And if nothing can be done about it, why get yourself in a sweat about it?

Which is just another way of blaming, and perhaps the best way, because there is solace and a certain stoical peace in blaming everything on the rain, and then blaming something as uncontrollable as the rain on something as indifferent as the Arm of the Lord.

For many people, there is an almost power to be found in prayer.

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!

I do not ask you much:I beg cold comfort.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,All losses are restor'd and sorrows end.

tibi terra levis. "May the earth lie light upon thee,

Sit tibi terra levis. "May the earth lie light upon

But solace also asks us very direct and forceful questions. Firstly, how will you bear the inevitable loss that is coming to you? And how will you endure it through the years? And above all, how will you shape a life equal to and as beautiful and as astonishing as a world that can birth you, bring you into the light and then just as you were beginning to understand it, take you away?

To look for solace is to learn to ask fiercer and more exquisitely pointed questions, questions that reshape our identities and our bodies and our relation to others.