Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
A guilty party is being sought. Such action is a favorite means of consolation in the face of calamity.
I use the name and the thought very, very easily as a sort of comfort - as a kind of comfort, in some way. And in that way, it's just like having a friend, I suppose.
One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.
Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.
Don't weep for me; don't write any sob stories.
The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly
I was good at keeping my mother from crying.
Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.
Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful.
Those who have suffered make the best comforters.
Don't shed no tears, no woman, no cry.
Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."
There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.
May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.
