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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters.
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.
consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.
For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You. . .
Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying.
Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.
Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.
When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.
Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.
I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.
And some win peace who spend
The skill of words to sweeten despair
Of finding consolation where
Life has but one dark end.
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe.
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
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.
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.
O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love you and to suffer for sinners.
The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.
Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.
I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.
It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.
... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.
