Console Quotes

• Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Trust In God, Salvation, Almighty

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Sorrow, Consolation

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• Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Eye, Best Effort, Grace

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• I strongly believe that love is the answer and that it can mend even the deepest unseen wounds. Love can heal, love can console, love can strengthen, and yes, love can make change.

  Somaly Mam

  Believe, Funny Relationship, Love Is

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• Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
  Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
  Where there is injury, pardon;
  Where there is doubt, faith;
  Where there is despair, hope;
  Where there is darkness, light;
  And where there is sadness, joy.
  O Divine Master,
  Grant that I may not so much seek
  To be consoled as to console,
  To be understood as to understand,
  To be loved, as to love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Spiritual, Prayer, Sadness

  The Origin of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis, www.franciscan-archive.org.

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• Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.

  William Osler

  Sad, Comfort, Helping

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.302, Duke University Press

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• Art is to console those who are broken by life.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Broken, Art Is

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• There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Self, Enemy

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• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

  Francis Bacon

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

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• We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, New Relationship, Motherhood

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Education, Reading, Passion

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• Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Pain, Heart, Deeds

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• Happiness can come in a single moment. And in a single moment it can go again. But a single moment does not create it. Happiness is created through countless choices made and then made again throughout a lifetime. You are its host as well as its guest. You give it form, shape, individuality, texture, tone. And what it allows you to give can change your world. Happiness can be stillness. But it isn't still. It wraps, enchants, heals, consoles, soothes, delights, calms, inspires and connects. It is on your face and in your body. It is in your life and being.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Single Mom, Choices Made, Giving

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• Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Becoming, Spirit

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• Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

  Zadie Smith

  Art, Myth, Western

  Zadie Smith (2006). “On Beauty”, p.170, Penguin UK

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• We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.

  Andre Maurois

  Real, Found, Real Ones

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!

  Georges Bernanos

  Dream, Loneliness, Simple

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• It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.

  Leonard Cohen

  Ocean, Heart, Reality

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.125, McClelland & Stewart

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• All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Order, Giving, Point Break

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• - Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise? She shook her head. - That my admiration for you is painfully strong? - I want Van – she cried – and not intangible admiration. - Intangible? You goose. You my gauge it, you may brush it once very lightly with the knuckles of you gloved hand. I said knuckles. I said once. That will do. I can't kiss you. Not even your burning face. Good-bye, pet. Tell Edmond to take a nap after he returns. I shall need him at two in the morning.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Morning, Strong, Kissing

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• People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind.

  James A. Baldwin

  Order, White, People

  "Fifth Avenue, Uptown" by James A. Baldwin, www.esquire.com. July 1960.

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• Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

  Jane Austen

  Disappointment, Names, Desire

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.182, Lulu.com

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• Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions.

  Frances Farmer

  Believe, Evil, Forever

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their primary sensation is nonetheless one of embarrassment in the presence of the unspeakable and a guilty gratitude that it is not yet their fate.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Gratitude, Fate, Dying

  Louis Auchincloss (2004). “East Side Story: A Novel”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a man loses his wealth, after a little thought he will realize that the delight that came from wealth will be restored by finding more. Thus he forgets his loss and is consoled. But if a man's heart is deprived of peace, where will he find it again, how will he replace it?

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Loss, Men

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