Quotes with consolations

  • There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
  • This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody.

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  • Susan Sontag For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Aldous Huxley Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Norman Douglas There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Edmund Burke 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
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Abraham Isaac Kook We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
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    Abraham Isaac Kook
    Israeli Orthodox Rabbi (1865 - 1935)
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  • Helen Keller Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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