Consolation Quotes - Page 17

• The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Future

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.73

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• It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of sickness--physical and moral: all the others are purely in the imagination.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Philosophical, Doctors

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• We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Want, Reason, Misfortunes

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• I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Kids, Play

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.68, Random House

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• I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic.

  Janice Galloway

  Growing Up, Numbers, Ninety Nine

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• O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love you and to suffer for sinners.

  Bernadette Soubirous

  Jesus, Love You, Suffering

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• The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence.

  Peter Blegvad

  Real, Goal, Magic

  Interview with Franklin Bruno, believermag.com. November 1, 2009.

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• No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.

  Nancy Thayer

  Light, Wind, Sea

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• If the nobles of the country really have the welfare of the people at heart, they should prevent and forbid music wherever it makes an appearance. For the fact that the people practise music has four disadvantages. The hungry are not fed, the cold are not clothed, the homeless are not sheltered and the desperate find no consolation.

  John Tilbury

  Country, Heart, People

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• Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Home, Adversity

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• Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

  David Landes

  Wisdom, Eye, Optimism

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• Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum.

  Alain de Botton

  Motivation, Inspiration, Oxford

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• 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.

  Christian, Loyalty, Home

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• 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

  Love, God, Christian

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• It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Believe, People, Dying

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• Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Love Life, Thinking, Existential

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “A very easy death”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.

  Albert Einstein

  Daughter, Teacher, Son

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• Kiss me, please kiss me
  But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
  You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
  I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.

  Jeff Buckley

  Goodbye, Kissing, Hug

  Song: Last Goodbye

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• The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home.... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Friendship, Dog, War

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• Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suicide, Night, Thinking

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

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Grief, Silence, Tears

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• A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Disappointment, Soul, Bereavement

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• Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Employment, Cold, Hours

  "Address at Holy Cross (25 June 1919)". "Have Faith In Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages", Second edition, p. 231, 1919.

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• 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

  Lonely, Jesus, Long

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• The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.

  Michael J. Fox

  Giving, Stories, Testament

  "Always Looking Up". Book by Michael J. Fox, abcnews.go.com. September 2008.

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