Quotes About Being Consoled

#1. There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

Jan Karon

#2. 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

#3. Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#4. 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

#5. The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that's not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

Walter Dean Myers

#6. I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

#7. To prosper, a zoo needs parliamentary government, democratic elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association, rule of law and everything else enshrined in India's Constitution. Impossible to enjoy the animals otherwise. Long-term, bad politics is bad for business.

Yann Martel

#8. We're in danger of losing a huge piece of our cultural inheritance to thugs and looters, if we haven't lost it already.

R.A. Mathis

#9. The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

Rob Lowe

#10. Eric Buckner is the most athletic big man I've ever coached.

Ron Hunter

#11. To find out that there is even one devoted fan who loves you, as a singer, without any condition, gives you tremendous amount of strength and courage. I work over and over again so I dont disappoint those people.

BoA

#12. 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

#13. Through, like the kind that spring up on the most perfect summer days, tossing the leaves of the trees and flowing past like heavenly water. A divine breeze. It changed everything, shifting the world around me into an even higher octave, a higher vibration. Although I still had little language

Eben Alexander