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.
One of the biggest limitations on consoles is the amount of memory available to the game.
Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.
If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a man loses his wealth, after a little thought he will realize that the delight that came from wealth will be restored by finding more. Thus he forgets his loss and is consoled. But if a man's heart is deprived of peace, where will he find it again, how will he replace it?
We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.
The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.
Ask your angel to console and assist you in your last moments.
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.
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.
Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.
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.
Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.
