Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.
Scripps: No.
Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

Genuine people are God's emissary. They rarely occur but when they do, they speak from the heart. Such is enough a comfort to a weary soul.

For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

Losers say it may be possible but it is too difficult.They see pain, they see problems in every endeavour whch they are supposed to fulfill.

If it's any consolation to you, I'm petrified.

We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?