Quotes About Consolation

In literature, I've never been without consolation. Books have found me at every stage of my life, reminding me that if a character could change, so could I.

There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned.

There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned. Sometimes, she could be in front of a train kiosk or the window of a bookstore, and she could feel Noa's small hand when he was a boy, and she would close her eyes and think of his sweet, grassy smell and remember that he had always tried his best. At those moments, it was good to be alone to hold on to him.

I consoled myself with the knowledge that if I were any good at pool I'd run the table quickly and not be able to play as long. As with so many things, there was utility in avoiding excellence.

If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have powerful motives—personal and patriotic—to help one another succeed and comfort one another when they fail. But at the same time they all compete for history's blessing.

As long as Christianity is treated as "moral poetry" and "tales of consolation," it poses no threat to the sovereignty of secularism.

I have suffered great losses and have been blessed with great consolations, but whatever life may give me or take away, this is the simple wisdom that will always light my life: I have loved, passionately, fearlessly, with all my heart and all my soul, and I have been loved in return. For me, this is enough.

It is a mere consolation to the timid to imagine that philosophy has died. The fact of the matter is quite to the contrary. Philosophy will be the last of human things; perhaps the efficient impulse of the end.

Authentic atheism is a blank page; Gnostic atheism hides a text written in invisible ink. The Ãœbermensch is the recourse of a nonconformist atheism. Nietzsche invents a human consolation for the death of God; Gnostic atheism, on the other hand, proclaims the divinity of man.

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

Instálese en un rincón tranquilo, cerca de la iglesia y de la gente sencilla y buena: o si tiene grandes deseos de dejar descendencia, cásese con alguna muchacha pobre y buena. Olvídese de este mundo ruidoso y de todas sus lujosas tentaciones, y que él también lo olvide. En este mundo no hay consuelo. Ya lo ve usted: no hay más que enemigos, traiciones y pecados

?yi, iyi; bunlar?n hepsini Hüsamettin Albay?ma söylerim. Mezar ta??ma yazd?ramam ya bu kadar ?eyi. Söyle evlad?m, diye teselli ederdi annem beni.Söyle de içine hicran olmas?n.Hicran oldu anne.

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

Premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.

It is poetry which effortlessly moves the heavens and the earth, awakens the world of invisible spirits to deep feeling, softens the relationship between men and women, and consoles the hearts of fierce warriors.

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead, we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something...I don't know...even an earring

Por lo menos no supe encontrar otra cosa que me consolase tanto del pequeño exceso de soledad que se había refugiado en mí.

O consolo trazido pelas garrafas e pelos livros se apagou num segundo, não deixando em seu olhar nada além de vazio e dor.

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

Leggere per me era evasione e conforto, era la mia consolazione, il mio stimolante preferito: leggere per il puro gusto della lettura, per il meraviglioso silenzio che ti circonda quando ascolti le parole di un autore riverberate dentro la tua testa

Children are a consolation for everthing - except having children.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

One of the stunning realities of the Christian life is that in a world where everything is in some state of decay, God's mercies never grow old. They never run out. They never are ill timed. They never dry up. They never grow weak. They never get weary. They never fail to meet the need. They never disappoint. They never, ever fail, because they really are new every morning.