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Consoling Quotes

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It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales  (Consoling Quotes) I’m not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling  (Consoling Quotes) It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces  (Consoling Quotes) He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan  (Consoling Quotes) Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling  (Consoling Quotes) Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world  (Consoling Quotes) He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear  (Consoling Quotes) There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain  (Consoling Quotes) We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling  (Consoling Quotes) We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society  (Consoling Quotes) These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits  (Consoling Quotes) If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered  (Consoling Quotes) There is nothing so consoling as to find one’s neighbor’s troubles are at least as great as one’s own  (Consoling Quotes) Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement  (Consoling Quotes) It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night  (Consoling Quotes) It is always consoling to think of suicide;it’s what gets one through many a bad night  (Consoling Quotes) How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness.  (Consoling Quotes) It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn’t make it true. Many people cannot understand that distinction.  (Consoling Quotes) It’s always consoling to know that today’s Christmas gifts are tomorrow’s garage sales  (Consoling Quotes) I think there is something very consoling in feeling lost in space but also feeling grounded, and seeing that all of this is part of a bigger clockwork  (Consoling Quotes) Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.  (Consoling Quotes) It’s a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.  (Consoling Quotes) True leaders don’t give consoling answers, they take constructive actions  (Consoling Quotes) When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people’s problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation  (Consoling Quotes) Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings  (Consoling Quotes) Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness  (Consoling Quotes) If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered  (Consoling Quotes) Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong  (Consoling Quotes) There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm... these things are ever welcome  (Consoling Quotes) Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it  (Consoling Quotes)
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