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• The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Absence, Ultimate, I Can

  Shelagh Delaney (1959). “A Taste of Honey: A Play”, p.17, Grove Press

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• For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

  Eric Ambler

  Science, Law, Internet

  Eric Ambler (2001). “A Coffin for Dimitrios”, Vintage

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• CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Knowledge, Men, Unfortunate

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.41, University of Georgia Press

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• Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cancer, Giving, Sin

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• If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

  Edward Albee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Fun, Mind, Progress

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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

  Richard Dawkins

  Nice, Condolences, Feelings

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• Though nothing can bring back the hour
  Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

  William Wordsworth

  Sympathy, Flower, Condolences

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 177 (1807)

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• It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Philosophy, Doe, Benefits

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia Smith Churchland, Dagfinn Follesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.173, MIT Press

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• Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

  Jeff Buckley

  Kissing, Desire, Kiss Me

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• I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

  Paul Cezanne

  Birthday, Artist, Age

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• 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

  Science, People, Religion

  "Has the world changed?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2001.

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• I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.

  Jay Roach

  Couple, Cutting, Dvds

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Cells, Lovely, Paper

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• There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Literature, Ifs

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.11, University of Illinois Press

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• If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.

  Mark Shields

  Law, Broken, Endorsements

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• I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Writing, Died

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• Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Children, Order, Punishment

  "Tristes Tropiques". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Chapter 38: "A Little Glass of Rum," pp. 388-389, 1955.

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• Love is not consolation, it is light.

  Simone Weil

  Love, Life, Light

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.14, Psychology Press

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• Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

  James Thurber

  Night, Lasts, Blind

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• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Wine, Beer

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.256

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• The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

  Voltaire

  Life, Thinking, Frankness

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• God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.

  Joseph Joubert

  Unhappy, Unhappiness, Console

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Degrees, Needs

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

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• In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

  Martin Luther

  Hope, Another Life, Expectancy

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