Quotes About Consolation In Death

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

Publilius Syrus

#2. You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will give you more strength during life and more consolation at the hour of your death and during eternity

Alphonsus Liguori

#3. I do have the consolation that my enjoyment brings no death and suffering; when I die no one will jump up and down in joy; and I remember all the names and faces that matter to me." Mata

Ken Liu

#4. To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

George Santayana

#5. The bottom line was that he didn't want to die. As far as he was concerned, death was the problem. The basic human problem. Everyone's problem. He wasn't any different from anyone else, but there was no consolation in that.

David Guterson

#6. Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#7. But I will finally be with Jesus. That is my one consolation, and it is enough to make death almost no worry at all.

Therese May

#8. Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.

Susan Kay

#9. Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

Elbert Hubbard

#10. We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.

Laura Bohannan

#11. Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life ...

George Sand

#12. I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.

Albert Einstein

#13. And it is a profound consolation, perhaps the only one, to this haunted animal that wastes most of a long and ghostly life wandering the future and the past on its hind legs, looking for meanings, only to see in the eyes of others of its kind that it must die.

Peter Matthiessen

#14. A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

Steven Weinberg

#15. And because I love this lifeI know I shall love death as well.The child cries out whenFrom the right breast the motherTakes it away, in the very next momentTo find in the left oneIts consolation.

Anonymous

#16. I am begging you." My arm lowered and tugged as he fell to his knees. "I'm begging you, Abby. Don't do this."
"Let me go, Travis."
Travis was on his knees, palms flat on the pavement.
The sight of him on the ground made the tears I'd been holding back rush down my face.

Jamie McGuire

#17. The words were old and true, full of reassurance, comfort, consolation. Men followed such words to their death because other men before them had done the same, and perhaps it was easier to die than admit that words could lose their meaning.

Don DeLillo

#18. The couple fell one atop of the other, struck down, finding consolation, at last, in death.

Emile Zola

#19. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Love, truth, beauty, wisdom and consolation against death. Who had said that? someone else who loved books.

Cornelia Funke

#20. And some win peace who spend
The skill of words to sweeten despair
Of finding consolation where
Life has but one dark end.

Walter De La Mare

#21. Bitter the day of birth, for death is its companion. Yet, though life be cold and cruel, we are not without a last consolation. For to die in one world is to be born into another. Let all men hear and remember!

Stephen R. Lawhead

#22. Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.

Sara Sheridan

#23. If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.

Leon Brown

#24. For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can have no objection to tears for any mortal who dies and goes to his destiny. And this is the only consolation we wretched mortals can give, to cut our hair and let the tears roll down our faces.

Homer