Top 72 Consoled Quotes
#1. Take heart, sir," Cazaril consoled him. "It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. It is to win an empire for your grandson.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#2. But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.
Margaret Atwood
#3. Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war.
Sinclair Lewis
#5. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled," I advised. "Really?" "Pretty much.
Kiera Cass
#6. Consoled him with the assurance that 'he'd catch it,' condescended to help him. Mr. Sowerberry came down soon after. Shortly afterwards, Mrs. Sowerberry appeared. Oliver having 'caught it,' in fulfilment of Noah's prediction, followed that young gentleman down the stairs to breakfast.
Charles Dickens
#7. There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
John Fowles
#8. The Greatest thing about masturbation is that it is always available. I wager that many a condemn man has consoled himself this way during the night before his execution.
Robert Anton Wilson
#9. With a beautiful girl I could have consoled myself that she was out of my league; that I was so haunted and stirred even by her plainness suggested - ominously - a love more binding than physical affection, some tar-pit of the soul where I might flop around and malinger for years.
Donna Tartt
#10. He alone knew the USSR was populated by many total enemies of socialism, egotists and vipers of the future world, and he secretly consoled himself by the thought that one day soon he would exterminate the whole mass of them, leaving alive only proletarian infants and pure orphans.
Andrei Platonov
#11. It was, I suspected, not the first time that a patient had consoled a doctor about the ineffectuality of his discipline.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#12. Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.
Jennifer Stone
#13. And the thought consoled me, as it does now: everything you believe you have imagined is real. You have only to outlive it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#14. I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.
Pope Benedict XVI
#15. As St. Francis of Assisi in the thirteenth century said it best, "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. For it is in giving that we receive.
Shawn Achor
#16. She wanted to complain, not to be consoled; and it was by exclamations of complaint only, Emily learned the particular circumstances of her affliction
Ann Radcliffe
#17. Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.
Ephrem The Syrian
#18. I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as a little girl. I'll go and let myself be consoled by my roses, my palm trees, my enormous volcanoes in San Salvador. When you are old, maybe you'll come and see me someday.
Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
#19. The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight and so called the battle vulgar; he was vain, and since his fellows would not take him at his own estimate, consoled himself with despising his fellows.
W. Somerset Maugham
#20. Greatness is lonely and mediocre people feel consoled by that thought.
One has to choose between greatness and mediocrity oneself and the responsibility is all theirs if they accept greatness.
John Steinbeck
#21. I consoled myself with the fact that I had max. He's warm, attentive and completely devoted. Who could ask for anything more
Abby Shaw, Sucker Punched
Sammi Carter
#22. A woman who'd lost her first son
consoled us with an angel gone ahead
to pray for our family
gone into that sky
seeking oxygen,
gone into autopsy
Michael S. Harper
#23. Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
Josh Billings
#24. Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them.
Edward Hirsch
#25. A sense of great masses moving at visionary speeds, of giants dancing, of eternal sorrows consoled, of he knew not what and yet he had always known, awoke in him with the very first bass of the deep-mouthed dirge, and bowed down his spirit as if the gate of heaven had opened before him.
C.S. Lewis
#26. When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.
Rachel Cusk
#28. the selfish gladly consoled themselves with the thought that though it was merciful at least it was not liberal;
Karl Polanyi
#29. I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.
Bertrand Russell
#30. Be not comforted. Consolation is not what you need. Weep and be not consoled, but weep.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#31. Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#32. More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
Ben Parr
#33. Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.
Thomas Hardy
#34. The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.
Anais Nin
#35. Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#36. People's responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood my neighbors in new and enlightening ways, and the wall reminded me that I'm not alone as I try to make sense of my life.
Candy Chang
#37. Grant that I might seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand.
Alisa Statman
#38. Cork your pistol, city boy," she murmured. "Ice cream is for hangovers. If you drug me, I'll also cut your man bits off. I need to be consoled, not tapped on the shoulder as if you were tapping me into a WWE fight.
Kirsty Dallas
#39. Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at."
When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.
David Sedaris
#40. He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.
Pete Hamill
#41. I forgot for a second that he was my ancestral enemy, and felt bad for him; then i consoled myself that bird poop brings good luck
Rob Reger
#42. My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way through my mothers' illness. They sat by my side year after year and consoled me. If they ever sent me a bill, I would be paying them off for the rest of my life.
Jenna Morasca
#43. Better to scratch the wound than bandage it: those who lose a child shouldn't be consoled; parents die to make room for their kids, not the other way around. He wasn't being cruel, he just thought a gash that deep had to be respected, not swaddled over with cuddles.
Yuri Herrera
#44. 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
#45. There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
Jan Karon
#46. Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
Aaron Copland
#47. The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by the echo of what it seeks.
Salman Rushdie
#48. The day will come when those knocking at the door will see it open; those who ask will receive; those who weep will be consoled.
Paulo Coelho
#49. Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,
When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,
Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,
But never will be sung to us again,
Is they remembrance. Now the hour of rest
Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#50. As children, we learn that if we cry, we'll receive affection , that if we show we're sad we'll be consoled. If we can't get what we want with a smile, then surely we can do so with our tears .
Paulo Coelho
#51. A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
Immanuel Kant
#52. The memory of you saddened my joys, but consoled my sorrows.
Henri Barbusse
#53. Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.
Kiera Cass
#54. The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.
Azar Nafisi
#55. I'm ruined," she confided miserably. "Everyone hates me." "I don't," Caleb pointed out. Lily was not consoled. "You're a man," she retorted, "and that doesn't count." Caleb arched his eyebrows at that but said nothing.
Linda Lael Miller
#56. I have always consoled myself that he such as I who is not a genius, can still achieve much that is useful when he does his work right and chooses his work to suit his talents.
Johann Rudolf Wolf
#57. He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son.
Saint Patrick
#58. You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!
Oscar Wilde
#59. I consoled myself with the knowledge that if I were any good at pool I'd run the table quickly and not be able to play as long. As with so many things, there was utility in avoiding excellence.
Moby
#60. Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.
Colum McCann
#61. Fortune has, in the main, hitherto looked unfavourably upon me since I left home, but I begin to hope for better things. Still, in all my past distresses, one thought has consoled me - I have learned to appreciate a parent's love.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#62. There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.
Jean De La Bruyere
#63. I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'
Earl Warren
#64. You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.
Magdalena De Pazzi
#65. Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been raped.
Geraldine Brooks
#66. The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
Victor Hugo
#67. In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
Orhan Pamuk
#68. Be consoled in knowing the world depends upon the small beating in your heart.
Sue Monk Kidd
#69. Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed. The first time that happened (and every time thereafter), I consoled myself with the thought that sooner or later I'd make a solo record
Rhett Miller
#70. But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.
Marcel Proust
#71. In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.
Alice Meynell
