Quotes about Consolation

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation. Votes: 5

A love of nature is a consolation against failure. Votes: 5

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. Votes: 5

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer. Votes: 5

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. Votes: 5

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Votes: 5

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. Votes: 5

If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws. Votes: 5

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. Votes: 5

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. Votes: 5

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence. Votes: 5

Even success needs its consolations. Votes: 3

Love is not consolation, it is light. Votes: 3

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. Votes: 3

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion. Votes: 3

Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy. Votes: 3

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find. Votes: 3

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen! Votes: 3

Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. Votes: 3

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. Votes: 3

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. Votes: 3

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. Votes: 3

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there. Votes: 3

Love is not consolation. It is light. Votes: 2

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. Votes: 2

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. Votes: 2

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. Votes: 2

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. Votes: 2

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. Votes: 2

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible. Votes: 2

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy. Votes: 2

I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches. Votes: 2

As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around. Votes: 2

When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man. Votes: 1

Self-admiration giveth much consolation. Votes: 0

For grief is crowned with consolation. Votes: 0

Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation. Votes: 0

Almighty God sends no trial without consolation. Votes: 0

Hope is the consolation of the world. Votes: 0

Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain. Votes: 0

Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough Votes: 0

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man Votes: 0

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation. Votes: 0

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize. Votes: 0

We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation. Votes: 0

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation. Votes: 0

At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument. Votes: 0

The Bahá´í Faith is consolation for humanity. Votes: 0

A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit. Votes: 0

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude. Votes: 0

The future: A consolation for those who have no other. Votes: 0

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks. Votes: 0

Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love. Votes: 0

sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love Votes: 0

Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation. Votes: 0

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. Votes: 0

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. Votes: 0

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation. Votes: 0

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith. Votes: 0

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. Votes: 0

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind Votes: 0

The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart. Votes: 0

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship Votes: 0

... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation. Votes: 0

Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy. Votes: 0

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself. Votes: 0

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. Votes: 0

Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc. Votes: 0

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless. Votes: 0

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. Votes: 0

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. Votes: 0

Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right. Votes: 0

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence. Votes: 0

To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death. Votes: 0

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me. Votes: 0

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation. Votes: 0

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living. Votes: 0

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. Votes: 0

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently Votes: 0

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. Votes: 0

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. Votes: 0

My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends, Votes: 0

Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life. Votes: 0

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. Votes: 0

You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory. Votes: 0

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. Votes: 0

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are. Votes: 0

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. Votes: 0

Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority! Votes: 0

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. Votes: 0

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside. Votes: 0

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night. Votes: 0

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation. Votes: 0

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous. Votes: 0

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation. Votes: 0

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation. Votes: 0

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about. Votes: 0

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having. Votes: 0

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. Votes: 0

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. Votes: 0

Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation. Votes: 0

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. Votes: 0

There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares. Votes: 0

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late. Votes: 0

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation. Votes: 0

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation. Votes: 0

In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer. Votes: 0

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. Votes: 0

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation. Votes: 0

Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. Votes: 0

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. Votes: 0

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation." Votes: 0

The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. Votes: 0

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it. Votes: 0

O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love you and to suffer for sinners. Votes: 0

Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun. Votes: 0

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation. Votes: 0

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that. Votes: 0

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure. Votes: 0

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. Votes: 0

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available. Votes: 0

If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters. Votes: 0

Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You. . . Votes: 0

For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home. Votes: 0

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue. Votes: 0

[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation. Votes: 0

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you. Votes: 0

We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation. Votes: 0

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it. Votes: 0

If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling. Votes: 0

I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue. Votes: 0

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened. Votes: 0

And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end. Votes: 0

If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation. Votes: 0

The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets it. Votes: 0

What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence. Votes: 0

If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy. Votes: 0

When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life. Votes: 0

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven. Votes: 0

Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It's the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" "blue Votes: 0

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation. Votes: 0

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency Votes: 0

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day. Votes: 0

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. Votes: 0

This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away. Votes: 0

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that. Votes: 0

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation. Votes: 0

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)] Votes: 0

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)] Votes: 0

My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering. Votes: 0

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God and love of all things in God - this is the sign that you are on this right path. Votes: 0

In 'Growing Stronger,' I expose my most painful moments and open my heart, thoughts and person, so that my experiences can inspire alleviation, consolation and decisiveness. Votes: 0

As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed, and humiliated beyond all consolation. Votes: 0

They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future. Votes: 0

When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation. Votes: 0

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content? Votes: 0

[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Whoever thinks from a distance about his situation lives it with suffering; whoever is close to it lives it with consolation, the fruit of a true wisdom. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows. Votes: 0

A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation. Votes: 0

Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes. Votes: 0

No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond. Votes: 0

You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their prognostications of the future; the far-seeing are also the foolish. Votes: 0

How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?. Votes: 0

There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined. Votes: 0

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves. Votes: 0

The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements... But a God of love and consolation. Votes: 0

We are entirely in the care of Divine Providence, and it is very sweet to remain so in peace. The Cross is never lacking; may it be our consolation. Votes: 0

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor. Votes: 0

Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour. Votes: 0

death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life ... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation. Votes: 0

A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God's consolation, understanding and love. Votes: 0

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails. Votes: 0

Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in general-the habit of judgment is now to be stamped out. Votes: 0

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers. Votes: 0

Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope. Votes: 0

Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them. Votes: 0

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. Votes: 0

A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ. Votes: 0

You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize. Votes: 0

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation. Votes: 0

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation Votes: 0

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven! Votes: 0

There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell. Votes: 0

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence. Votes: 0

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past Votes: 0

Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works. Votes: 0

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary. Votes: 0

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief. Votes: 0

I've definitely taken a lot of consolation from animals in my life. There have been times when I've been really sad, and they gave solace and comfort and companionability more than a person. Votes: 0

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives. Votes: 0

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound. Votes: 0

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use. Votes: 0

When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it. Votes: 0

I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men. Votes: 0

It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence. Votes: 0

Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when our life ends, after which there will be only joy, only contentment, only eternal consolation. Votes: 0

Really, it is the Lord who carries the cross, for He knows how to make the soul content with little or no consolation and always to find strength in the words..."Thy will be done." Votes: 0