Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.
I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions.
Quid autem de corporis uoluptatibus loquar, quarum appetentia quidem plena est anxietatis, satietas uero paenitentiae?
Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
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.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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.
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
