In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.
It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.
The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.
For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.
Even success needs its consolations.
Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.
Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation.
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God's consolation, understanding and love.
but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.
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.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Let is walk. . . joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life. . . These pains will have an end when our life ends, after which there will be only joy, only contentment, only eternal consolation.
Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.