Console Quotes - Page 3

• I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.

  George Sand

  Believe, Angel, Men

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• A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.

  Charles Boyer

  Italian, Men, Break Off

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• Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.

  Georges Seurat

  Light, Drunk, Drunkenness

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• Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Eye, Next, Painting

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• Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” Piper leaned over the console. “Are you sure they’re Roman?” Leo rolled his eyes. “No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they’re Roman!

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Sight, Eagles

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• It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Sadness

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• God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Beautiful, Religion, Wicked

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• I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Drinking, Wine, Winning

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• When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Unhappy, Muffins, Trouble

  Oscar Wilde (1956). “Annotated The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People with English Grammar Exercises: by Oscar Wilde (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.72, Powell Publications, LLC

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• There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.

  Dana Gioia

  Song, Art, Stories

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• Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

  Blaise Pascal

  Misery, Distraction

  "The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".

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• Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Opportunity, Order

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• The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

  Lionel Shriver

  Discovery, Humanity, Heartbreaking

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.78, Counterpoint Press

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• . . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, May, Today

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.

  Andre Gide

  Christian, Soul, Atheism

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• The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Country, Age, Departure

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.25, Editorial MAXTOR

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• Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm behind, a counter to the slow in and out of Emmeline's breathing.

  Diane Setterfield

  Art, Hands, Breathing

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Kindness, Real

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• We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don't know if that's necessarily such a good thing.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Reality, Dying

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• I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.

  Josie Maran

  Dating, More Time, Situation

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• One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Stupid, Presidential

  Prime Time Press Conference on Iraq War, delivered on 13 April 2004 from the East Room of the White House

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• While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Gratitude, Sleep, Waiting

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• I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore the field is extremely competitive. I console myself with the thought that although they may be smarter and may be deeper thinkers than I am, I have broader interests than they have.

  Linus Pauling

  Smart, Theoretical Physics, People

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• Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.

  John Ortberg

  Hurt, People, Perfect

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