Quotes About Consolation

I have seen some very beautiful things through my anger, and what consoles me a little, is that through my anger I do not stop looking...

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

religion focused far more on damnation than on consolation.

Miserable comforters are ye all.

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

So many times you've given me comfort and forgetfulness.

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

Again, everyone knows how the priests themselves make profit from the worker, extract money out of him on the occasion of marriage, baptism or burial. How often has it happened that the priest, called to the bedside of a sick man to administer the last sacraments, refused to go there before he had been paid his "fee"? The worker goes away in despair, to sell or pawn his last possession, so as to be able to give religious consolation to his kindred.

El arte en general, y la literatura en particular, son armas poderosas contra el Mal y el Dolor. Las novelas no los vencen (son invencibles), pero nos consuelan del espanto.

even when every man deserts us, God will be our consolation.

I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.

As consolation you thought of the dead and liked to assume them with you in some sense, present in the ether or the fiber of the mind. But then you had to admit that if they were in fact present, abstractly present as you wished to believe, if they were there in the molecules, their spirit in everything... what fresh horrors would they find?

Escreveme longamente; contame tudo o que houver interessante; falame de ti, que é o meio de consolar minhas saudades, que são imensas, imensas como este amor que tenho à minha família toda.

Porque levo na minha bolsa os bens e os males, e o maior de todos, a esperança, consolação dos homens. Tremes?

Mary Paula had severe morning sickness and was in no mood to console him. He had to be particularly consolatory to her.

I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world. But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. 'Love is not consolation,' she wrote. 'It is light.' All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.

238. I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world. 239. But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. "Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light." 240. All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.

All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.

For grief is crowned with consolation.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

Bisogna lasciare la ragione agli altri perché questo li consola di non aver altro.