#consolation

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#mood #solitude #solitude

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#ask #consolation #find #i #me

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#bible #bit #cell #consolation #could

The stratagems by which briefly you ameliorated, even seemingly untwisted what still twists within you — you loved their taste and lay there on your side nursing like a puppy. ↗

— Frank Bidart

#comfort #consolation #art

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#consolation #great #great source #me #mother

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#beer #brandy #called #cares #condition

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#completely #consolation #covered #cried #enjoy

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. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#being #better #consolation #ever #may

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen! ↗

— James Thurber

#consolation #dreamed #enjoyed #i #knows

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#consolation #dismal #ears #even #hope