Consolation Quotes
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.
Claude Monet
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
William Samuel Johnson -
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
Plutarch -
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
Willard Van Orman Quine -
Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
Gertrude Atherton -
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Norman Douglas
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Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.
David Landes -
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
Gerard De Nerval -
O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love you and to suffer for sinners.
Bernadette Soubirous -
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
Eric Ambler -
You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory.
Brigit of Kildare -
Oh! how great and glorious a thing it is to have before one the Word of God! With that we may at all times feel joyous and secure; we need never be in want of consolation, for we see before us, in all its brightness, the pure and right way.
Martin Luther
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
Victor Hugo -
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.
Hilary Mantel -
Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
Jonathan Raymond -
He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Her pain came from inside herself, from her resentment of the contrariness and frustration of life, while his came most often from outside himself, growing inevitably from his compassion. It was a simplification of the difference between them to say that to the selfish comfort comes from the external things, while to the selfless consolation comes interiorly, but that was the way Daphne put it to herself.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be deserted by all men. For of the consolations which are to be derived from these (under any circumstances) the world cannot deprive me.
George Washington
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The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
Albert Camus -
Even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.
George Eliot -
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
Albert Camus -
Not only can what others are suffering be a consolation while we are suffering, but even knowing what others suffered long ago can be consoling.
Anna Seghers