Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem. . . The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
I've definitely taken a lot of consolation from animals in my life. There have been times when I've been really sad, and they gave solace and comfort and companionability more than a person.
His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.
We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption - anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see and know ourselves.
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
Scenery without solace is meaningless.
Writing is the supreme solace.
What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!
True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.
I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people can, but by and large people - that's one of the first things that goes, is the capacity to read meaningful literature. With grief, that's not true. For a while you can't read, but then you really are amenable to solace.
Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.
Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.
I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.
Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men command What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? What sweeter solace shall befall than one to find Upon whose breast thou may'st repose the secrets of thy mind
The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.
There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.