Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
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.
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.
Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.
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. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous. . . I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
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.
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.
Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby. . . . There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
For grief is crowned with consolation.
We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.
My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment.
If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.
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.