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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. -- William Samuel Johnson
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
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
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment. -- Will Self
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. -- Susan Sontag
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. -- Christopher Hitchens
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. -- Norman Douglas
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. -- John Green
I'll never believe I'm any older than 18. I get angry when my body can't do what an 18-year-old's does. And looking in the mirror is really a tragic sight. There are many consolations to getting older, but physically, it's quite unkind. I find that I have as much mobility, but it takes longer to get pretty. -- Anthony Newley
Even success needs its consolations. -- George Eliot
Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets. -- Mason Cooley
The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic. -- Sigmund Freud
Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires. -- Teresa of Avila
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations. -- Edward Abbey
The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance. -- John Fowles
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. -- Aldous Huxley
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One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it. -- Joyce Carol Oates
We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations. -- Abraham Isaac Kook
To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life. -- Theodor Reik
Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men. -- Thomas a Kempis
One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence. -- Lawrence Fagg
The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life -- Michael J. Fox
People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time. -- Rumer Godden
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. -- Anthony Storr
One of the great consolations . . . is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude. -- Derek Mahon
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all. -- Hector Hugh Munro
I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature. -- P. D. James
I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself. -- Abraham Lincoln
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations. -- Thomas a Kempis
How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation! -- F.B. Meyer
What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing. -- Richard Sibbes

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