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Quotes About Consolation

the fact that unjustified beliefs can have a consoling influence on the human mind is no argument in their favor.
~ Sam Harris
People thought money would make them happy. But money was the consolation prize in life. Money was what you had left to dream for when all the other dreams died. Money was what would keep you going when nothing else could delight you again.
~ Sara Gran
Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.
~ Sarah Dessen
This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on...
~ Sarah Dessen
Monica's about sick, she's almost inconsolable
~ Sarah Dessen
In the end you can't save your soul and life by thought. But if you think , the least of the consolation prizes is the world.
~ Saul Bellow
Ci sono casi, sì, ce ne sono, in cui ogni consolazione è viltà e la disperazione un dovere.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dont grieve any more, see I am coming up with you everyday now, and if there is anything the matter, you can come to me.
~ Johanna Spyri
Theology is not free speech but holy speech. It is set apart for and bound to its object - that is, the gospel - and to the fellowship of the saints in which the gospel is heard as divine judgement and consolation-that is, the Church.
~ John B. Webster
But we must always come back to this consolation: The Lord planned our sorrow, so let us submit to his will. Even in the throes of grief, groans, and tears, we must encourage ourselves with this reflection, so that our hearts may cheerfully bear up while the storms pass over our heads (John 21:18).
~ John Calvin
People love conspiracies," said Harris. "They find them reassuring. It's the consolation that someone, somewhere might actually have a design in mind. The fearful embrace conspiracies for the same reason they believe in God.
~ John Connolly
Nosotros decimos que para consolarnos por la pérdida del Paraíso Dios nos concedió sólo a nosotros entre todas sus criaturas Esperanza y Memoria. Mejor dijéramos: Sólo porque somos criaturas cargadas con Esperanza y Memoria alentamos la ilusión de un Paraíso que nosotros y solamente nosotros hemos perdido.
~ John Crowley
Thy breath in the congregation, thy word in the church, breathes communion and consolation here, and consummation hereafter;
~ John Donne
Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.
~ Robert Breault
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation
~ Bertrand Russell
Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.
~ Kiera Cass, The Selection
Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.
~ C. S. Lewis
He stole glances at the heathen faces of Bodien and Gaylord, the suffering, yet oddly consoled, eyes and mouth of Basellecci, noting the brave enthusiasm of men who had never dreamed of anything very definite, and it occurred to him through the reek of his person that there was only one hope for him, and for all people who had lost, through intelligence, the hope of immortality. "We must love and delight in each other and in ourselves!" he cried.
~ Edward Lewis Wallant
It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to die. Their only consolation is that one day they're right.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
That connection between anxiety and ugliness unexpectedly consoled me. You can turn ugly because of worries—
~ Elena Ferrante
Solo en las malas novelas la gente piensa siempre lo correcto, dice siempre lo correcto, todo efecto tiene su causa, hay simpáticos y antipáticos, buenos y malos, al final todo te consuela
~ Elena Ferrante
The attentions of Pasquale Peluso consoled me greatly, I liked that he made me laugh. Maybe I'm not so ugly, I thought, maybe I can't see myself.
~ Elena Ferrante
connection between anxiety and ugliness unexpectedly consoled me.
~ Elena Ferrante