My Solace Quotes

#1. WITHIN THESE WALLS, he became my solace, my sanctuary, and my strength. Like a white knight, he saved me from a life of gray and showed me a world full of color.

J.L. Berg

#2. But now I have something that blows that feeling out of the water. Every time I need a hit of joy, I think about you. You are my solace, Kate. Just knowing that you are in this world, everything makes sense. p. 275 Until I Die (ARC)

Amy Plum

#3. He was my comfort. He was my solace. Nearly everything I had faced in my young life, I had gotten through because of him, because he was always there for me, with soft words and a tender heart.
-Kiera Allen

S.C. Stephens

#4. He was my tormentor and my solace; the creator of the dark and the light within.

C.J. Roberts

#5. Today is the time of my youth
I drink wine because it is my solace;
Do not blame me, although it is bitter it is pleasant,
It is bitter because it is my life.

Omar Khayyam

#6. It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

Story Musgrave

#7. Stories are my art and my solace. They could also be my weapons. Stories give more than facts. Stories touch the conscience and stimulate action. That is my motive and my goal, to put research and study and feeling into that cauldron called the novel.

Sonia Levitin

#8. My heart, independent of my logic, had reserved a place for my tormentor and my solace.

C.J. Roberts

#9. You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

Moliere

#10. Solitude my solace, wrapped around me
like layers of golden hair. Stacks of books
and I can sing as loud as I please all day and night.
[from the poem, Rapunzel: I like the Quiet]

Jeannine Hall Gailey

#11. Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.

Randy Pausch

#12. Music has always been there for me and is what's helped me through everything. It's like my solace.

Sharleen Spiteri

#13. I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.

Bellamy Young

#14. It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.

Daisy Ridley

#15. Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguish and my solace. My escort and my cage.

Leslye Walton

#16. School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.

Sarah Dessen

#17. My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

Karen Armstrong

#18. There's a part of me that recognizes him on a cellular level, a part that seeks his comfort and solace, that feels more than comfortable in his arms. And when he stares at me with that deep penetrating gaze of his, my body reacts in all the right, and wrong, ways.

Siobhan Davis

#19. I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

Lisa Bonet

#20. My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

Mason Cooley

#21. How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.

Eugene Field

#22. Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.

Leslie Jamison

#23. May the Gods all preserve for me (until my present form ceases) this clear and sunlit view of external reality, the instinctive awareness of my unimportance, the cosiness of being small, and the solace of being able to imagine myself happy.

Fernando Pessoa

#24. But my foster mother never explained to me that there can be a deep loneliness in modern sanity too. That madness can be its own form of solace.

Diana Abu-Jaber

#25. My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.

Rebecca Lim

#26. I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

Ben Katchor

#27. The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

Natasha Trethewey

#28. Was that all my love was, all it meant? So light, so easily gone and forgotten? Is solace that simple? And solace is not even the right word: I'm happy.

Pauline Reage

#29. Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail
And perish in your perishing unblest.
And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope
Of all our universe, with desperate hope
To find some solace for your wild unrest.

James Thomson

#30. Rose found her solace in her religion.
I tried to find my own solace in running away from my own.

Andie J Fessey

#31. I promise to love you unconditionally, to support you in your goals and dreams, to honor and respect you, to laugh with you and cry with you, to share my hopes and dreams with you, and bring you solace in times of need.

E.L. James

#32. We have nothing. We solace ourselves with the great men of our tribe, the Gandhi and the Nehru, and we castrate ourselves. 'Here, take my manhood and invest it for me. Take my manhood and be a greater man yourself, for my sake!

V.S. Naipaul

#33. Bear was as beautiful as he was hard. He was as complex as he was simple. He was both the storm and the calm. The fear and the solace. The rage and the peace.
My life and my love.

T.M. Frazier

#34. I had learned from my own father's death many years ago that the end of one's life and dying are two very different things indeed, and took solace in that.

Jasper Fforde

#35. At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.

Camille Pissarro

#36. It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

Fiona Apple

#37. When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.

Aaron Zigman

#38. Henceforth an individual solace dear;
Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim
My other half: with that thy gentle hand
Seisd mine, I yielded, and from that time see
How beauty is excelld by manly grace.

John Milton

#39. She's my love, my home, the solace to my soul, the keeper of my heart, the center of my entire fucking world. The only reason I really believe in my own goodness is because I see it reflected in her eyes.

Emma Chase

#40. As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

John Milton

#41. Most of what brings me solace and peace are nothing more than ghosts of my past, yet I hold tightly to keep them with me in the present for fear that without them, I just might disappear too.

E.K. Blair

#42. If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

Ingrid Newkirk

#43. I looked at her, wanting her with all the lust of my months alone and untouched. But I knew also that for that deeper hunger for companionship and understanding, she offered me no more solace than any man might find in his own hand.

Robin Hobb

#44. At times I was desperate and could find no solace anywhere. Nothing seemed to work, and the weight of being trapped in my own body made it difficult to lift even a hand off the sheets.

Lucy Grealy

#45. My fear of standing alone often pressures me to stand with a rather unsavory group that embraces a rather unsettling belief system which leaves me wondering why I left the promises of God for the company of people.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#46. I forgot to sup
annoyance
from his glass full of
mingled dread and rage
Now let me take
a small draught of solace
from my own little cup
full of predicaments!
From the poem- Draught

Munia Khan

#47. Of course I played. It was my only solace.

Patrick Rothfuss

#48. People ask all the time, "What are you thinking?" It's my least favorite question in the world. The last bastion of solace is my mind. It's an invasion.

Charlie Sheen

#49. It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface.

Mehmet Oz

#50. But you are a solace just by existing, vividly in my thoughts if not here before me.

Joyce Carol Oates

#51. Nina was my sanctuary as much as she was my war zone. Peace and solace one moment, explosions and massacre the next.

Nicole Williams

#52. In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#53. Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it and apt to spend more of my waking and some of my sleeping hours thinking about it, or just feeling about it. It is my escape.

Mark Heard

#54. Some seek
solace in
whiskey,

I drown my
sorrows
in ink.

Noor Shirazie

#55. 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.

Susan Orlean

#56. I think back to my dream of the boy, because in it I find solace. I like that word. I'm going to make it my word of the year. There is just something about that boy that makes me feel like I belong. Belong. Long to be. Weird word, but semantics aside, it is up there with solace.

Melina Marchetta

#57. From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library...

Alice Hoffman

#58. Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.

Brandon Thomas

#59. I take comfort in knowing that the inevitable passage of time will erase my crimes from history.

Dennis B. Boyer

#60. I rested my hand on Will's shoulder. 'Don't worry. We'll be back by dawn.'
His mouth trembled ever so slightly. 'How can you be sure?'
'I'm the sun god,' I said, trying to muster more confidence than I felt. 'I always return at dawn.

Rick Riordan

#61. I wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy, of solace. I would not have told my woe to a living creature. My own tears meant nothing to me.

Anne Rice

#62. I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again; it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.

Alice Sebold

#63. You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom.

Linda Fiorentino