Words Of Consolation Quotes

#1. Happiness is just a priest who reads us words of consolation while we walk up the steps to the hangman.

William H Gass

#2. . . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolving
within the trees - then, fleeting words of consolation
would not suffice if feigned, and flippant words
confessed reluctance - our words
were meaningless uttered on the wind. . .

John Daniel Thieme

#3. I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words of consolation when I needed them and a well-ordered home where #Christian love is a reality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. Dig down into the blood depths of hormonal bedrock, where violence and sex and power grow fibrously entwined. It's a murky, complicated place down there. No telling what you'll drag up once you start excavating.

Richard K. Morgan

#5. Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Marguerite Gardiner

#6. I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion!

Jane Austen

#7. When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.

Hilary Mantel

#8. Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

Paul Auster

#9. In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

Thomas Gage

#10. God help me, what I wanted to do was to sweep her into my arms and clasp her to my manly bosom and pour words of soft comfort and consolation into her shell-like ear, as any red-blooded male would do.

Rosy Thornton

#11. But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

Jimmy Page

#12. Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender.

Angela Ahrendts

#13. Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside ... It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying.

Ji-Hae Park

#14. Class analysis can thus function not simply as part of scientific theory of interests and conflicts, but of an emancipatory theory of alternatives and social justice as well. Even if socialism is off the historical agenda, the idea of countering the exploitative logic of capitalism is not.

Erik Olin Wright

#15. I find it hilarious that if we lie to the government, it's a crime. But if they lie to us its politics

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#16. In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every word He says to them is set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation.

Fulton J. Sheen

#17. He speaks with this tone like he owns things, but we know that even the baton stick in his hands is not his, that if he weren't on this street he'd be nothing.

NoViolet Bulawayo

#18. Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.

Geoff Mulgan

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

Horace

#20. Really, it is the Lord who carries the cross, for He knows how to make the soul content with little or no consolation and always to find strength in the words ... "Thy will be done."

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#21. There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

Bill McCollum

#22. The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Adam Sandler

#23. 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

#24. So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

Sun Tzu

#25. In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#26. 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

#27. There are times when words are extra, like raindrops on drenched grass. There are times for holding. He held her ...

Bud Macfarlane Jr.

#28. 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

#29. Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.

James A. Moore