Consolation Quotes - Page 18

• The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Art, Form, Collectors

  Michael Kimmelman (2005). “The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa”, Penguin Press HC

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• A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God's consolation, understanding and love.

  Arthur Middleton

  Heart, People, Understanding

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• Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

  Roger Scruton

  Home, Joy, Sorrow

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• Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.

  Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart

  Hands, Suffering, Contentment

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• They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilization which we have already attained.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Spiritual, Civilization, Intellectual

  "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge University Press, volume IX, 1998.

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• Brothers and sisters, one of the great consolations of this Easter season is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so. His solitary journey brought great company for our little version of that path…This Easter week and always, may we stand by Jesus Christ ‘at all times and in all things, and in all places that (we) may be in, even until death,’ for surely that is how He stood by us when it was unto death and when He had to stand entirely and utterly alone.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Lonely, Jesus, Easter

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• Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,-- Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory.

  Madison Cawein

  Memories, Lying, Night

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• One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Communication, Communicate

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• From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Sorry, Humility, Loss

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• As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to survive? Or are we reporters of the truth, assembling the multiple shards of reality into intricate portraits which seek out the connections between misery and blessing, violence and wisdom? Do we protect or investigate the heart?

  Russell Sherman

  Heart, Reality, Artist

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• The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.

  Alex Johnston

  Artist, Names, People

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• The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

  Edmund White

  People, Imagination, Admission

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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• There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who embrace the practice of this abandonment, which consists in receiving with a certain indifference every sort of event, as it happens in conformity with Divine Providence, as well afflictions as consolations, contempt and reproaches as honor and glory.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Practice, Giving, Honor

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• These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Adversity, Home, Night

  "Oratio Pro Licinio Archia", VII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 757,

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• Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

  Andrew Jackson

  Mourning, Feelings, Language

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• Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

  Mason Cooley

  Philosophical, Upset, Doe

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• If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend.

  George Washington

  Memories, Grateful, Long

  George Washington (1948). “Basic Writings of George Washington”

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• I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.

  P. D. James

  Struggle, Book, Wine

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.20, Vintage

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• Hope is the consolation of the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1061, Library of Alexandria

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• Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this holy Sacrament. Overshadow me with Your loving kindness, and let this divine Mystery bear fruit in me.

  Saint Blaise

  Love, God, Christian

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• Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Sex, Disappointment

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.

  Barry Humphries

  Song, Art, Past

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• We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Faults, Problem

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• Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Home, Adversity

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• Kiss me, please kiss me
  But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
  You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
  I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.

  Jeff Buckley

  Goodbye, Kissing, Hug

  Song: Last Goodbye

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