Consolation Quotes
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Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.
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Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
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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.
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What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
