Great Consolation Sayings

#1. If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.

Mark Shields

#2. Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.

Craig Brown

#3. It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#4. I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.

Edward Hirsch

#5. I know I experience great consolation when my mouth is between a woman's legs. I think it must be because I'm drinking in her happiness.

Jonathan Ames

#6. Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

Charles Buck

#7. Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.

Claude Monet

#8. The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champion and the world champion, but I want Justin Gatlin to be the champion of everything,

Justin Gatlin

#10. To have the universe bear one company, would be a great consolation in death.

Publilius Syrus

#11. It's a great consolation to think that when we've long been in the grave our noses will still be strolling the earth.

Milan Kundera

#12. Whatever you believe, and however, each of us deals with these events in our lives, one thing is for certain the truism, time is a great healer, is of no consolation at that moment of intense, all-consuming grief.

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Sarah Jane Butfield

#13. The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache ... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

Stanley Kubrick

#14. Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows, who never weep for the sorrows of others very seldom have any of their own. Great hearts could be made only by great troubles.

Charles Spurgeon

#15. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#16. 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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

Katherine Heigl

#18. Our only consolation, as we feel our own strength failing us, is to feel that we may help those who come after us to do more and to do better than ourselves, fixing their eyes as they can on the great horizons of which we only had a glimpse," pronounced Pasteur, with characteristic gallantry. Many

Bill Wasik

#19. He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#20. The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#21. Jesus. 7For we havea great joyb and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.

Anonymous

#22. Jesus whispers consolation; I cannot refuse it; I will sit under His shadow with great delight.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#23. Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.

George Eliot

#24. Oh! how great and glorious a thing it is to have before one the Word of God! With that we may at all times feel joyous and secure; we need never be in want of consolation, for we see before us, in all its brightness, the pure and right way.

Martin Luther

#25. But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem, and how small they are; how we think we shall die of grief, and how quickly we forget, I think we ought to be ashamed of ourselves and our fickle-heartedness. For, after all, what business has Time to bring us consolation?

William Makepeace Thackeray

#26. The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

Edward Abbey

#27. The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

Isaac D'Israeli

#28. To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

Theodor Reik

#29. I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#30. The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

Elias Canetti

#31. There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Horace

#32. 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.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#33. It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

Mark Wahlberg

#34. The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently

Albert Einstein

#35. We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

Abraham Isaac Kook