Quotes About Consolation

I find it more consoling to think of myself as little than to think of myself as big. I think I've gotten that from animals, particularly dogs. Dogs live such a modest life, and they don't live long, and the more you're around them, you kind of accept that.

Gücenmeyiniz, dedi, ?iirlerinize te?ekkür ederim. Sizin her geli?iniz benim için büyük teselli. Fakat hep birbirinize benziyorsunuz. Bir zevkli tecrübe, sonra elveda. Nevzat da öyle yapt?. Bir son vapur bahanesi kâfi.

Just look over your shoulder...I'll be there always.

After Operation Protective Edge, I visited every one of the bereaved families. Religious and secular, rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Jews and non-Jews.

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

Then his Father's will was done, and from darkness came light, and death was conquered. This is our story, our faith, our consolation.

T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

And did the distress I was feeling derive from some internal sickness of the soul, or was it imposed on me by the sickness of society? That someone besides me had suffered from these ambiguities and had seen light on their far side... that I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf—felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a life lived wrong, a chance to be again innocent, simply and impossibly happy.

Lejos un trino. El ruiseñor no sabe que te consuela.

No hay consuelo mas hábil que el pensamiento de que hemos elegido nuestras desdichas.

Lucas chiede: - Non sei mai triste? - No, perché una cosa mi consola sempre di un'altra. (una bambina)

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear? Words of comfort.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well. The child cries out when From the right breast the mother Takes it away, in the very next moment To Find in the left one Its consolation.

Even so, in death the same unknown will appear as ever known to me. And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well. The child cries out when from the right breast the mother takes it away, in the very next moment to find in the left one its consolation.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.

Talvez que o amor da morte seja como o amor por homem, e a gente só se satisfaça, só se console e se cure depois de possuída e extenuada.

And if I have anything else to say to you it is this: do not think that the person who is trying to console you lives effortlessly among the simple, quiet words that sometimes make you feel better. His life is full of troubles and sadness and falls far short of them. But if it were any different he could never have found the words that he did.

Nous sommes en avant tout à fait comme des nostalgies. C'est au loin, dans des arrière-plans éclatants, qu'ont lieu nos épanouissements. C'est là que sont mouvement et volonté. C'est là que se situent les histoires dont nous sommes des titres obscurs. C'est là qu'ont lieu nos accords, nos adieux, consolation et deuil. C'est là que nous sommes, alors qu'au premier plan nous allons et venons.

And if I have anything else to say to you it is this: do not think that the person who is trying to console you lives effortlessly among the simple, quiet words that sometimes make you feel better. His life is full of troubles and sadness and falls far short of them. But if it were any different he could never have found the words that he did. Yours, Rainer Maria Rilke

Do not think that the person who is trying to console you lives effortlessly among the simple, quiet words that sometimes make you feel better. His life is full of troubles and sadness and falls far short of them. But if it were any different he could never have found the words that he did.

And Heyst, the son, read: Of the stratagems of life the most cruel is the consolation of love—the most subtle, too; for the desire is the bed of dreams.