Top 419 Consolation Quotes & Sayings

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation.

If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy.

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

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

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

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

Hope is the consolation of the world.

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

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough

The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!

For grief is crowned with consolation.

Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work of art which you have the insight, sensitivity, and — like it or not — peculiar set of experiences to appreciate. Amazing thing to say, the consolation of horror in art is that it actually intensifies our panic, loudens it on the sounding-board of our horror-hollowed hearts, turns terror up full blast, all the while reaching for that perfect and deafening amplitude at which we may dance to the bizarre music of our own misery.

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather, consolation is the first step in regaining personal equilibrium and strength, which necessarily precedes the ability to act.

At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.

The Bahá´í Faith is consolation for humanity.

We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

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

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire His tribulation. He finds many comrades in eating and drinking, but He finds few hands who will be with Him in His abstinence and fastingBut those who love Jesus purely for Himself, and not for their own profit or convenience, bless Him as heartily in temptation and tribulation and in all other adversities as they do in time of consolation. And if He never sent them consolation, they would still bless and praise Him.

Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination.

The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death.

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.

For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.