quotes about Consolation
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We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently
-- Albert Einstein -
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
-- Antonio Machado -
A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
-- Berthe Morisot -
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What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence.
-- Brian KolodiejchukSource : Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.177, Random House
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Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.
-- Claude Monet -
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
-- Elias Canetti -
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
-- J. C. Macaulay -
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Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
-- Jonathan RaymondSource : "Q&A | Portland author Jon Raymond". Interview with Michael Upchurch, www.seattletimes.com. January 14, 2009.
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Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.
-- Michael KimmelmanSource : Michael Kimmelman (2005). “The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa”, Penguin Press HC
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The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.
-- Shelagh DelaneySource : Shelagh Delaney (1959). “A Taste of Honey: A Play”, p.17, Grove Press
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To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.
-- Theodor Reik -
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
-- Wilfrid Sheed -
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
-- William Samuel Johnson -
The Bahá´à Faith is consolation for humanity.
-- Bahá'u'lláh -
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
-- Isaac D'IsraeliSource : "Essay on the Literary Character" by Isaac D'Israeli, Preface p. xxix, and Vol. I, p. 187, 1795.
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We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden -
The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.
-- Roger Scruton -
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.
-- Julien Green -