Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks."
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Consolation
53 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently."
Simone Weil
Philosopher, Activist
"Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith."
Carl Sandburg
Poet, Biographer
"There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it."
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"When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation."
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"God has commanded Time to console the afflicted."
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"In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible."
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"Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation."
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"One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it."
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"The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart."
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"We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted."
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"Music is the best consolation for a despaired man"
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"It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else."
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"My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends."
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"Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists."
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"The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic."
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"[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation."
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"This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away."
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"Even success needs its consolations."
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"Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow."
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"Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants."
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