Top 66 Quotes About Consolations
#1. To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.
Theodor Reik
#2. It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#3. Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
Aldous Huxley
#4. Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Helen Keller
#5. Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
Ann Radcliffe
#6. I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.
P.D. James
#7. Whereas the consolations of religion are mainly personal, the burdens are social and political as well as personal.
A.C. Grayling
#8. What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.
Richard Sibbes
#9. But it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that he is attractive - to some woman.
Agatha Christie
#10. Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be deserted by all men. For of the consolations which are to be derived from these (under any circumstances) the world cannot deprive me.
George Washington
#12. It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
Hector Hugh Munro
#13. What do I believe in? Imagination, gardens, science, poetry, love, and a variety of nonviolent consolations. I suspect that in this aggregate all this isn't enough, but that's where I am for now.
Teju Cole
#14. As regards being dead, however, one of my main consolations has always been that I have the strongest intention of being an extremely active ghost. Let nobody make any mistake about that.
Siegfried Sassoon
#15. One of the great consolations ... is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#16. You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs
they pass into laws
they pass into doctrines
they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#17. Unsettled heart. The fetishism of secrecy. These people understood - as I did - the back alleys of the soul, whispers and shadows, money slipping from hand to hand, the password, the code, the second self, all the hidden consolations that lifted
Donna Tartt
#18. The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.
Anthony Storr
#19. The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
Sigmund Freud
#20. And but for the company of these little objects which I picked up here and there, when out walking, and which sometimes gave me the impression that they too needed me, I might have been reduced to the society of nice people or to the consolations of some religion or other, but I think not.
Samuel Beckett
#21. Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
Calvin Coolidge
#22. How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation!
F.B. Meyer
#23. Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
C.S. Lewis
#24. The consolations of space are nameless things.
It was after the neurosis of winter. It was
In the genius of summer that they blew up
The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds.
It took all day to quieten the sky
And then to refill its emptiness again ...
Wallace Stevens
#25. For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag
#26. One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#27. It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.
Derek Mahon
#28. A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
Christopher Hitchens
#29. When things went wrong they had the consolations of religion. This wasn't just a readiness to accept Fate; this was a quiet and profound conviction about the vanity of all human endeavour.
V.S. Naipaul
#30. Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
Thomas A Kempis
#31. I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.
John Green
#32. Man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.
Orhan Pamuk
#33. [A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.
Perry Anderson
#34. The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
Edward Abbey
#35. The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.
John Fowles
#36. Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.
Teresa Of Avila
#38. The real trouble is that the pure Word of Jesus has been overlaid with so much human ballast - burdensome rules and regulations, false hopes and consolations - that it has become extremely difficult to make a genuine decision for Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#39. Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
Will Self
#40. Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.
Teresa Margaret Of The Sacred Heart
#41. Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.
Mason Cooley
#43. The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life
Michael J. Fox
#44. People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.
Rumer Godden
#45. To dedicate oneself as a Victim of Love is not to be dedicated to sweetness and consolations; it is to offer oneself to all that is painful and bitter, because Love lives only by sacrifice and the more we would surrender ourselves to Love, the more we must surrender
ourselves to suffering
Therese De Lisieux
#46. Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.
Simone De Beauvoir
#47. They think that you bear old age more [e] easily not because of the way you live but because you're wealthy, for the wealthy, they say, have many consolations.
Plato
#48. How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity.
Barbara Pym
#49. [ ... ]he who can speak out of the abundance of God's Word, the wealth of directions, admonitions, and consolations of the Scriptures, will be able through God's Word to drive out demons and help his brother.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#50. Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke
#51. Knocking back the wine and reaching for the cheap consolations of kimchee-scented Kleenex fiction
Maureen Corrigan
#52. Thunder Road' knows who I am and what I feel, and that is one of the consolations of art.
Nick Hornby
#53. There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Norman Douglas
#54. When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good.
Thomas Jefferson
#55. You know that the nucleus of a time is not
The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind
Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed
As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins
Nor stand there making orotund consolations.
He shares the confusions of intelligence.
Wallace Stevens
#56. There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.
Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling And Bulwer
#57. I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.
Abraham Lincoln
#58. What we have not has made us what we are.
Those surface consolations have to go.
May Sarton
#59. We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
Abraham Isaac Kook
#60. If none of God's saints were troubled and tried - we would not know half so well the consolations of divine grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#61. Things can make sense at the time, but as you get older those consolations no longer help you sleep. It's the only thing I've learned. We all think we know the answer, and we're all wrong. Shit, I'm not sure we even know what the question is.
Mark Mills
#62. This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#63. All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies His lonely audience to none. Its secrets are holy; its asylum, inviolate; its consolations, sure; and all are open to the simple heart-word, Thou art my hiding-place.
James Martineau
#64. If none of God's saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. When
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#65. One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.
Lawrence Fagg
#66. We must, between periods of digging in the dark, endeavour always to transform our tears into knowledge.
Alain De Botton
