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Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover. -- Edmund Burke
Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me. -- Blaise Pascal
Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. -- James Russell Lowell
What do those of us who aren't tall, flawlessly sculpted adolescents do? Answer: Console ourselves with how relative beauty can be... Thank heavens for the arousing qualities of zest, intelligence, wit, curiosity, sweetness, passion, talent and grace. -- Diane Ackerman
Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands. -- Trip Hawkins
I used to feel guilty about owning a console. -- Vin Diesel
Little things console us because little things afflict us. -- Blaise Pascal
Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace. -- Trip Hawkins
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. -- Democritus
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. -- Honore de Balzac
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. -- Jane Fonda
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five? -- Lord Byron
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. -- Karl Kraus
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. -- Francis Bacon
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. -- Martin H. Fischer
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. -- Horace Walpole
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. -- Seneca the Younger
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success. -- Steven Weber
The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC. -- John Carmack
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. -- Benjamin Disraeli
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for. -- Euripides
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. -- John Irving
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. -- Blaise Pascal
Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console. -- Rick Astley
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console. -- Dalai Lama
All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. -- Marguerite Duras
The Xbox 360 is the best game console ever designed. It's fast and powerful - games look as good on the 360 as on high-end PCs that cost six times as much. It's easy to navigate and has lots of useful secondary features - the ability to play digital video, stream MP3s, and so on. -- James Surowiecki
There's something I call 'Moving Day,' which I've done for the last 20 years. Look at everything in your home, then think about how you could combine things in a different way. Maybe you break up your night tables and use one in the family room; maybe the dining room sideboard becomes a console table for your television, with storage underneath. -- Nate Berkus
The classics can console. But not enough. -- Derek Walcott
And empty heads console with empty sound. -- Alexander Pope
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God has commanded Time to console the unhappy -- Joseph Joubert
Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity. -- Mason Cooley
Art is to console those who are broken by life. -- Vincent Van Gogh
What can money do to console a man with a headache? -- George MacDonald
. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow. -- Vincent de Paul
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted. -- Anne Bronte
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. -- Oscar Wilde
Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. -- Gretel Ehrlich
Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us. -- Jose Marti
Ask your angel to console and assist you in your last moments. -- John Bosco
Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind. -- Qiu Miaojin
We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one. -- Andre Maurois
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. -- Agnes Repplier
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. -- Albert Camus
The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as. -- Arsene Houssaye
If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you. -- Charles Spurgeon
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad... -- Alain de Botton
The purpose of art is to console and amuseâ??myself, and, I hope, others. -- Ludwig Bemelmans
Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves. -- Zadie Smith
Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions. -- Amit Kalantri
Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console. -- Georges Seurat
The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious. -- Emily Dickinson
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all matters -- Philip K. Dick
When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them. -- C. Terry Warner
The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains. -- Luc de Clapiers
I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me. -- Josie Maran
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. -- Marguerite Duras
When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me. -- Edgar Wright
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation. -- J. C. Macaulay
One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life. -- George W. Bush
In order to console a soul in it's sufferings, point out to it all the good it can still do. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every console, I don't give a damn if it's analog or digital-hell, every mixing situation today-is the brainchild of Bill Putnam. -- Bruce Swedien
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. -- Maxim Gorky
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart. -- Sophie Swetchine
I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet. -- Drew Carey
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves, -- Banksy
Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child. -- Louis Garrel
I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child. -- Louis Garrel
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console. -- Pliny the Younger
He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
See, that's the difference," Mauvin said. "I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate. -- Michael J. Sullivan
Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now. -- Xavier de Maistre
While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment. -- William Gilmore Simms
[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice form of escapism. -- Idris Elba
The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one. -- Maria von Trapp
I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal. -- Sophie Swetchine
We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts. -- Luc de Clapiers
If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting. -- Chris DeWolfe
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. -- Seneca the Younger
He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you. -- Guillaume Musso
Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes! -- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
There's no bigger gaming franchise on the console than 'Call of Duty', and we can't wait to see what the community can create with this new tool. -- Emmett Shear
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing. -- Edward Abbey
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it. -- Thucydides
The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, until Nintendo launched its console, video games were an outcast for five years. -- Bing Gordon
Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead. -- Gyles Brandreth
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Actually, before 'Super 8,' I didn't even have a game console. But now I do. For a kickoff for 'Super 8,' they gave us all brand new PlayStation 3s. -- Joel Courtney
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell. -- Hermann Hesse
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans. -- John Ortberg
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. -- Goldwin Smith
We are all too keenly aware that those of you who supported us by purchasing the 3DS in the beginningmay feel betrayed and criticize this decision [to cut the console's price]" -- Satoru Iwata
A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man. -- Charles Boyer
We can take absolutely anything that runs on PC or high-end console and run it on Tegra...I didn't think that we'd be at this level on mobile for another 3 - 4 years. -- Tim Sweeney
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love. -- Alain de Botton
I strongly believe that love is the answer and that it can mend even the deepest unseen wounds. Love can heal, love can console, love can strengthen, and yes, love can make change. -- Somaly Mam
Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours. -- William Osler
Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love, with all my heart. With all my heart. -- Eugene Roe
We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team. -- J Allard
The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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. -- Anatole France
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone. -- Ken Wilber
We're working to overcome the overly macho nature of the current online console game world, where a handful of the high testosterone crowd fight for supremacy, while the mass of casual game players stay away. -- Reggie Fils-Aime

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