Consolation Quotes - Page 2

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

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

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

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

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

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

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

The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.

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.

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man

Even success needs its consolations.

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

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.

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

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

Hope is the consolation of the world.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

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