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• I've definitely taken a lot of consolation from animals in my life. There have been times when I've been really sad, and they gave solace and comfort and companionability more than a person.

  Susan Orlean

  Taken, Animal, Comfort

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People ask all the time, "What are you thinking?" It's my least favorite question in the world. The last bastion of solace is my mind. It's an invasion.

  Charlie Sheen

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.

  Aaron Zigman

  Hurt, Piano, Tennis

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• Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.

  Brandon Thomas

  Song, Records, Lasts

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• I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

  Daniel Craig

  Movie, Falling In Love, Character

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• A believer longs after God, to come into his presence, to feel his love, to feel near to him in secret, to feel in the crowd that he is nearer than all the creatures. Ah! dear brethren, have you ever tasted this blessedness? There is greater rest and solace to be found in the presence of God for one hour than in an eternity of the presence of man.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Men, Secret, Crowds

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne: Containing His Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, Songs of Zion, &c”, p.82

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• The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly irridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Real, Play, Age

  "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America" by Daniel J. Boorstin, Vintage edition (p. 37), 1992.

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• Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.

  Greg Mottola

  Song, Silly, College

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• Music has always been there for me and is what's helped me through everything. It's like my solace.

  Sharleen Spiteri

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Some people have religion as a means of solace. But, I had a dreidel, so that was out.

  Lewis Black

  Mean, People, Religion

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• He who accepts life for what it is and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by it does not need to seek refuge for his crushed self-confidence in the solace of a 'saving lie'. If the longed-for success is not forthcoming, if the vicissitudes of fate destroy in the twinkling of an eye what had to be painstakingly built up by years of hard work, then he simply multiplies his exertions. He can look disaster in the eye without despairing.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Lying, Hard Work, Eye

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around and I'm thinking about plot and there's a lot of other things going on at the level of structure and story. With a poem, a single idea or line or emotion can sometimes be enough - there's often a sense, in the best poems, of capturing a single instant. Perhaps poems differ from prose in the degree of solace they can offer - by speaking so personally, so directly, about shared experience. A few lines of poetry can provide comfort.

  Nick Laird

  Moving, Writing, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.

  Ann Aguirre

  Infinite, Single Word, Offers

  Ann Aguirre (2010). “Killbox”, p.219, Penguin

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• Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men command What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? What sweeter solace shall befall than one to find Upon whose breast thou may'st repose the secrets of thy mind

  Nicholas Grimald

  Friendship, Men, Secret

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• I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again; it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.

  Alice Sebold

  Mother, Dog, Brother

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• Because I’ve lost my children, too, and I know the ache that lives inside the heart that no amount of solace or alcohol will squelch. I know what it’s like to have the powers of a god and to not be able to hold the one thing that means the most to me. And if you think for one minute that I would ever serve that to another being, even Artemis, who I’d like to torture for eternity, then go ahead and call down your army on me. I would deserve whatever death they give. (Sin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Heart, Mean

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

  Paullina Simons

  Despair, Body, Shattered

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• He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as often as you can. Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company; the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him. One need not cry out very loudly; He is nearer to us than we think.

  Brother Lawrence

  Heart, Past, Thinking

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• The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Loneliness, Knowing, People

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• I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom.

  Regina Doman

  Real, Princess, Thinking

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• Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope Of all our universe, with desperate hope To find some solace for your wild unrest.

  James Thomson

  Depth, Unrest, Woe

  James Thomson (2011). “The City of Dreadful Night”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace

  Ian Fleming

  Kindness, Men, Thinking

  Ian Fleming (2012). “For Your Eyes Only”, Vintage Digital

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• It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most eccentric creatures and their most pernicious designs to blessed and happy issues.

  John Flavel

  Wise, Religious, Blessed

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Inspiration, Golf, Poet

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• If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men and women are not content to comfort themselves with tales of gods and giants, or to confine their thoughts to the daily affairs of life; they also build telescopes and satellites and accelerators and sit at their desks for endless hours working out the meaning of the data they gather.

  Steven Weinberg

  Hard Work, Science, Men

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