#consolation

Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?' 'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#fickleness #husbands #men #men

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

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

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#feeling #inside #nice #owe #universe

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

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

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

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#consolations #corner #create #creatures #deserves

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