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Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation. -- Jeff Buckley
A love of nature is a consolation against failure. -- Berthe Morisot
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. -- Victor Hugo
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer. -- Thomas a Kempis
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. -- Robert Hughes
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. -- Carl Sandburg
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. -- Henry David Thoreau
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. -- Gerard De Nerval
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. -- Richard Dawkins
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. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
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. -- Mark Shields
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. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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. -- David Cronenberg
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. -- Christopher Columbus
Even success needs its consolations. -- George Eliot
Love is not consolation, it is light. -- Simone Weil
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. -- Heinrich Heine
Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion. -- Czeslaw Milosz
Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find. -- Wilfrid Sheed
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen! -- James Thurber
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. -- Virginia Woolf
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. -- Frank Moore Colby
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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. -- Thomas Jefferson
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. -- Helen Keller
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. -- Edmund Burke
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. -- Brendan Behan
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. -- Vera Nazarian
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. -- Jay Roach
Love is not consolation. It is light. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. -- Heinrich Heine
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. -- Alan Furst
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. -- Paul Cezanne
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. -- Donald Wuerl
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. -- Rupert Holmes
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. -- Rachel Cusk
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. -- James D. Watson
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. -- Angie Harmon
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. -- Umberto Eco
Self-admiration giveth much consolation. -- Gertrude Atherton
For grief is crowned with consolation. -- William Shakespeare
Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation. -- Clementine Paddleford
Hope is the consolation of the world. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation. -- John Vianney
Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain. -- Mary Balogh
We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation. -- Christina, Queen of Sweden
Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize. -- Jonathan Raymond
Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation. -- Roger Scruton
At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument. -- Richard Ford
A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit. -- Petronius
My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The future: A consolation for those who have no other. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man. -- Henry David Thoreau
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks. -- Voltaire
sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love -- Gabriel García Márquez
Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation. -- Claude Monet
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. -- Charlotte Bronte
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. -- Orhan Pamuk
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation. -- Marcel Proust
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith. -- Simone Weil
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. -- Publilius Syrus
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind -- Elias Canetti
The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart. -- Timothy Keller
I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship -- Forrest Gander
... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation. -- Jane Frances de Chantal
Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy. -- Luc de Clapiers
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself. -- Ambrose Bierce
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc. -- Rigoberto Gonzalez
consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless. -- Amy Hempel
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. -- Will Durant
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right. -- David Landes
The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence. -- Shelagh Delaney
To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death. -- Publilius Syrus
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me. -- Katherine Heigl
Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation. -- Ruth Ozeki
We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. -- George Santayana
The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently -- Albert Einstein
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. -- Julien Green
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. -- Elbert Hubbard
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends, -- Christopher Hitchens
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life. -- Voltaire
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. -- Victor Hugo
You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory. -- Brigit of Kildare
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. -- Don DeLillo
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are. -- Albert Camus
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. -- Honore de Balzac
Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority! -- William Howard Taft
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. -- Edward Abbey
The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside. -- Richard Dawkins
Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation. -- Cardinal Richelieu
Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous. -- Charles Buck
To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation. -- R. C. Sproul
In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation. -- Willis Gaylord Clark
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The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having. -- Michael Kimmelman
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. -- Martin Luther
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. -- Josh Billings
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation. -- Orhan Pamuk
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares. -- Richard Armour
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late. -- Laurence Sterne
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation. -- J. C. Macaulay
Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation. -- Patricia Wentworth
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer. -- Mary Todd Lincoln
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation. -- Jeff Tweedy
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. -- Antonio Machado
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. -- Simone de Beauvoir

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