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Quotes About Solace

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.
~ James A. Michener
I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.
~ Danny Bonaduce
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
~ Jean Paul
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I feel Angel warm beside me and think how I'll never love anyone this much, how without her I would disappear.
~ Jennifer Egan
Your friends mourn your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you're never going through anything alone.
~ Jennifer Lopez
The small heart cannot break. The ecstasy of its penalty solaces the large.
~ Emily Dickinson
When I lost the use of my Eyes it was a comfort to think there were so few real books that I could easily find some one to read me all of them.
~ Emily Dickinson
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
~ Erica Jong
I sought solace in the very thing that caused me pain.
~ Aminatta Forna
The personality of a home is healing. It is a warm and welcoming place where weary, lonely and broken people find solace.
~ Andi Ashworth
la tristeza alivia y es rica
~ Andrés Caicedo
He loved books as other men love women, or opium, or tobacco: they were as a soothing drug to make him forget life.
~ Andre Maurois
No one is depressed when they're asleep, which is why being in bed is such a safe place if you're really down.
~ Michael Redhill
I guess nostalgia is our sanctuary in sorry times.
~ Rick Bragg
determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Cuando el crepúsculo deje caer su cortina y prenda allí una estrella, recuerda que tienes cerca una amiga, aunque la distancia te separe de ella.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I think, if ever any great sorrow came to me, I would come to the pines for comfort," said Anne dreamily.
~ L.M. Montgomery
It was one of those hugs when it feels almost like you're trying to meld yourself into the other person. Sometimes it's sexual, but sometimes it's because the world has gone too wrong and you need something to cling to.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
the only thing that helped me breathe was opening a book
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I'm just going to pretend that a very good-smelling, incredibly warm stranger is sitting next to me, a harmless stranger.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
when I wasn't stoned the only thing that helped me breathe was a book
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
~ Alain de Botton