Quotes About Consolation

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.

In November, Mrs. Sasaki became very ill. With each passing day, the radiation that had infected her body would make its gruesome symptoms more visible. Soon, it became apparent that Mr. Sasaki was also infected. Both parents took consolation in thinking that at least Sadako and Masahiro had been spared what was now commonly referred to as the Atomic Bomb Disease.

Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting to know what happened to her hamster, you develop an instant belief in anything that dissolves some of the heartbreak off her face.

You've stopped crying. I'm glad. I don't want you to cry anymore.

I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget.

But Ana, how could I have been such a lousy judge of character? I groaned. Because you don't much care to judge people's characters, she answered after a moment's thought. It's a strength, you know, as well as weakness. It was small consolation.

I shall simply say that those who offer false consolation are false friends.

Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.

Si los oías sólo dos veces, los recuerdos de Lou podían parecer monótonos. Si los oías muchas, se convertían en viejos amigos. Eran reconfortantes.

there will be people who will not be consoled for the loss of a cause which they believed to be holy.

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

He fell in love with his golem, found it a source of consolation. Life

He would find consolation in the reminder that all flesh was as grass, that in the end all our striving came to nothing, but that in that brief aching and vivid time that we call life, one must do all that was possible to protect, conserve, and nurture this phenomenon of life.

When things went wrong they had the consolations of religion. This wasn't just a readiness to accept Fate; this was a quiet and profound conviction about the vanity of all human endeavour.

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

Books are cold but safe friends.

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God.

Le plus beau des autels, disait-il, c'est l'âme d'un malheureux consolé qui remercie Dieu.