There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul
If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.
Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.
I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.
Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.
Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat.
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.
I get huge solace from chaos, especially if someone else is doing it, too, like, 'Thank God it's not just me!'
Music has always been there for me and is what's helped me through everything. It's like my solace.
Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.
[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.
I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.
I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.
Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.
When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace.
Before every game I pray, I find solace. It helps me to relax and prepare.
Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.
Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.
As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.
They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and in the foxhole of my divorce, I found solace in walking to St. Patrick's Cathedral and lighting candles.
That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.
My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.
At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.
It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.
The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.
When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.
Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?
How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.
Each day, each noise I gather explodes, leaving me to death; to rest in the solace of silence & to be re-born.
I still pinch myself that I have a second-hand Aston Martin DBS Volante, the convertible model of James Bond's car from 'Quantum of Solace' and 'Casino Royale.'
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.
I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.
The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic.
I was in rehab for nine months, and I needed some solace and distraction. I was in town one day and I sort of stumbled into a jazz jam session, and kept going back.
I was not a cool kid. There was no reason for me to be marginalised. I was just a nerd. I was kind of weird, and I found solace in video games.
It's all a matter of history.
Brandy is no solace.
Librium only lies me down
like a dead snow queen.
Yes! I am still the criminal.
Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.
Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.
It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.
If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.
People ask all the time, "What are you thinking?" It's my least favorite question in the world. The last bastion of solace is my mind. It's an invasion.
The most rewarding thing for someone like me is for someone else to find solace through my music.
If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it's time to stop the nonsense and find a place of solace to refresh your spirit
And in Life's noisiest hour,
There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,
The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy.
You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.
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