#consolation

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

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#compassion #consolation #died #drawn #faith

Stroking a blob as it rolled along her face with one hand, and with the other gently grasping a lump on the back of her accident-prone head, I told my sweet sack of potatoes I knew just what she needed. A thermometer reading. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#consolation #funny #thermometer #funny

We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'? ↗

— Veronica Roth

#humor #humor

Love is not consolation. It is light. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#light #love #love is

drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awake repairing in dirt the frayed immaculate thread forced by being to watch the birth of suns ↗

— Frank Bidart

#consolation #mundane-life #art

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

#consolation #content #feel #i #i think

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#changed #consolation #crutch #evidence #harm

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#because #bit #consolations #contempt #false

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#consolation #derive #life #people #troubles