Quotes About Consolation

Una biblioteca no es algo por leer, sino una compañía —dijo, tras dar unos pasos más—. Un remedio y un consuelo.

In addition to being what we are as BTS, we wanted to bring some changes, and we actually wanted to evolve as a group. We wanted to show our many colors, but we still want to console others and give hope to others.

When three of Job's friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. —Job 2:11

Lives in stories have direction and meaning. Even stupid, meaningless lives, like Lenny's in "Of Mice and Men," Acquire through their places in a story at least the dignity and meaning of being Stupid, Meaningless Lives, the consolation of being exemplars of something. In real life you do not get even that.

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote movingly about having her own equivalent of a Bat Cave, but in the end, she found consolation by telling herself, "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." I agreed with this, but I still couldn't get the small things or people out of my head. EVENTS IN MY PERSONAL LIFE required me to understand better where my "bats" were coming from.

We would either have a silent, a soft, a perfumed cross, sugared and honeyed with the consolations of Christ, or we faint; and providence must either brew a cup of gall and wormwood, mastered in the mixing with joy and songs, else we cannot be disciples. But Christ's cross did not smile on him, his cross was a cross, and his ship sailed in blood, and his blessed soul was sea-sick, and heavy even to death.

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.

Les baisers sur le corps font pleurer. On dirait qu'ils consolent.

Kisses on the body bring tears. Almost like a consolation. At home I don't cry. But that day in that room, tears console both for the past and for the future. I tell him one day I'll leave my mother, one day even for my mother I'll have no love left. I weep. He lays his head on me and weeps to see me weep.

Son corps de fille, sa plaie, sa calamité bienheureuse, il crie, il appelle le paradis perdu de son unité, il appelle sans cesse, désormais, qu'on le console, il n'est entier que dans un lit d'hôtel.

I thought I would get calmer, surer, but each time we come close I feel almost sick at first. As though each time vibrates with the times before. I feel a terrible sorrow coming up my throat, I don't know why. And it can only be consoled against the length of her body. Lying down with her for the first time... all the pain I didn't know I had, till at her touch it disappeared like smoke. Is this what purgatory feels like? To burn painlessly? If so, why isn't it called heaven?

There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, — and always to plead it successfully.

This kind of consolation from the world's deceit is very common. Mothers obtain it from their children, and men from their dogs. Some men even do so from their walking-sticks, which is just as rational. How is it that we can take joy to ourselves in that we are not deceived by those who have not attained the art to deceive us?

in these fits of sad regret from which the latter years of few reflecting men can be free, religion would suffice to comfort him. Yes, religion could console him for the loss of any worldly good.

Friends are a comfort in misfortune but one should not make them unhappy by seeking their sympathy...

When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myth.

My ambitions for you are slowly being realised, and, even though you are unhappy, console yourself with the thought that it was part of my plan for you to be unhappy for a while. The fact that you associate intimately with girls who do not care for the things you do should strengthen your own artistic integrity and fortify you against the world; remember, Natalie, your enemies will always come from the same place your friends do.

Con sólo temer a la mediocridad, ya se está a salvo: he aquí el consuelo que usted me ofrece. Mas yo le pregunto: ¿A salvo de qué? ¿No se estará a salvo en la certeza de no ser un mediocre? ¿Qué importa lo que uno teme o deja de temer? ¿Acaso lo más importante no es que las cosas sean efectivamente como tememos que sean?

A friend of mine who is working on a memoir says, I hate the idea of writing as some kind of catharsis, because it seems like that can't possibly produce a good book. You cannot hope to console yourself for your grief by writing, warns Natalia Ginzburg. Turn then to Isak Dinesen, who believed that you could make any sorrow bearable by putting it into a story or telling a story about it.

It is appalling not to be there to console someone for the pain you cause by leaving . . .

L'amour n'est pas consolation, il est lumière.