#consolation

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#confidence #consolation #doubt #granted #greater

If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#art

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 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

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

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

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

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ↗

— Rumi

#consolation #grief #loss #reincarnation #loss