Consolation Quotes

When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

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.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.