Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Consolation. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Consolation Quotes And Sayings by 93 Authors including William S. Burroughs,Therese May,Mary Ann Shaffer,Ovid,Friedrich Nietzsche for you to enjoy and share.
Perhaps all pleasure in only relief -- William S. Burroughs
But I will finally be with Jesus. That is my one consolation, and it is enough to make death almost no worry at all. -- Therese May
Sorrow has rushed over the world like the waters of the Deluge, and it will take time to recede. But already, there are small islands of - hope? Happiness? Something like them, at any rate. -- Mary Ann Shaffer
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts. -- Ovid
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Our moral frailty is a strange consolation. -- Jen Pollock Michel
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks. -- Voltaire
What weeping adds quietly to your life. Happiness can't even have idea of it. -- Lovely Goyal
There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives. -- Timothy Keller
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
if I was just the consolation prize. -- Corinne Michaels
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. -- Alfred De Musset
What this world needs is truth, not consolation. It must find itself in its ordeal and by way of its restlessness, not in the solace of edifying discourses that do nothing but pile on more testimony to its misery. -- Jean-Luc Nancy
There is some joy in weeping. For our tears
Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away. -- Ovid
We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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. -- Ji-Hae Park
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction. -- Tryon Edwards
At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument. -- Richard Ford
Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief. -- Walter Scott
I do have the consolation that my enjoyment brings no death and suffering; when I die no one will jump up and down in joy; and I remember all the names and faces that matter to me." Mata -- Ken Liu
Bear in mind there is no situation in life for which you cannot find some word of consolation in Scripture. -- D.l. Moody
It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief -- Jojo Moyes
The word of God gives comfort. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous. -- Charles Buck
Sometimes the presence of a happy moment, one that won't fade, is all the comfort we need. -- Lawren Leo
There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness. -- David Rakoff
Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened -- Ashley Gardner
My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have found that the only consolation is never regretting anything that you do. Never look back, always look forward and continue moving along with a confidence that everything you're doing and everything you've done is the way it's supposed to be. -- Randolph J. Rogers
If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling. -- Simon Blackburn
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering -- Albert Camus
A moment of self-giving lifecan conquer the sorrowsof many long years -- Sri Chinmoy
I say, indeed: "consolation in the nonsentience of nature." For nonsentience is consoling; the world of nonsentience is the world outside human life; it is eternity; "it is the sea gone off with the sun" (Rimbaud). -- Milan Kundera
It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed. -- Heloise
Joy in All Circumstances -- Joyce Meyer
Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe. -- Sophie Swetchine
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome. -- Samuel Richardson
But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem, and how small they are; how we think we shall die of grief, and how quickly we forget, I think we ought to be ashamed of ourselves and our fickle-heartedness. For, after all, what business has Time to bring us consolation? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
O my good lord, that comfort comes too late,
'Tis like a pardon after execution.
That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me;
But now I am past all comforts here but prayers. -- William Shakespeare
The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart. -- Timothy Keller
I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else. -- Josh Billings
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear. -- Juana Ines De La Cruz
Oh! what does grief matter - what does misfortune matter, if one knows how to be happy? -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Compensate Compassion -- Z.n. Victor
On a fulcrum in my chest, grief and relief are balanced in equal measure. -- Nayomi Munaweera
In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling. -- Leo Tolstoy
There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble. -- Don Marquis
There is no greater sorrow ... than to be mindful of the happy time. -- Dante Alighieri
I shall simply say that those who offer false consolation are false friends. -- Christopher Hitchens
Sorrow opens the gate to the Grace of God -- Tim Willocks
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation. -- J. C. Macaulay
Hope makes the soul glad. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Out of misery, comes unexpected joy. -- Milly Silver
Comfort and solace come about differently for different people. -- D.t. Max
The real comfort is that the history of the world contains so much grief that my small griefs are edged out, and are only cinders at the borders of the fire. I am saying this again because I want it to be true. -- Sebastian Barry
There is no greater comfort than the idea that we have chosen our own misfortunes. -- Jorge Luis Borges
So one moment you have lost something precious, and then, in the very next moment, you find your mind is resting in a deep state of peace. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
Even the darkest of hearts needs a little comfort from time to time. -- J.l. Vallance
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others. -- Aesop
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. -- Jean Paul
Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well -- William Shakespeare
Sorrow does not take away, but adds to the Christian's joy. -- Lester Roloff
God sweetens outward pain with inward peace. -- Thomas Watson
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. -- Gerard De Nerval
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation. -- Cardinal Richelieu
In sorrow and in pain, still do remember your Master Jehovah; He can make things that do not matter, matter. -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources. -- George C. Lorimer
Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing. -- Richard Sibbes
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. -- William Wordsworth
It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. -- Ovid
In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Within sadness lives a happiness deeper than any pain. -- Cathryn Alpert
The only consolation was that - to the religious mind - adversity is good for the soul. -- Mike Carey
I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not. -- Jeff Tweedy
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late. -- Laurence Sterne
Suffering sweetens the reward -- F.e. Higgins
Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace. -- Howard Thurman
We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation. -- Laura Bohannan
The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will. -- R.t. Kendall
I rest in the light of forgiveness. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them. -- Perry Anderson
Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves
moments before the wind. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
My unhappiness protects me from life. -- Orhan Pamuk
Joy, once lost, is pain -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief. -- Petrarch
If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best. -- Paulo Coelho
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. -- James Russell Lowell
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who is resolute conquers grief. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. -- Amy Lowell
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. -- Rene Descartes
Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hope can get you through anything. -- Jamie Ford
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine -- Thomas Aquinas
There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow -- Soren Kierkegaard
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. -- Samuel Johnson
Sorrow is brief but joy is endless -- Friedrich Schiller
Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness. -- Wm. Paul Young
