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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.


Friedrich Nietzsche

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ROGER SCRUTON Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.
MARY BALOGH The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.
ROGER SCRUTON Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.
ALAN BENNETT The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agree...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Love is not consolation. It is light.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To get runs was nice but no consolation for the fact that, again, we contrived to lose a match that ...
FRASER WATTS My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
KATHERINE HEIGL They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection...
JANE AUSTEN It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO Genuine people are God's emissary. They rarely occur but when they do, they speak from the heart. Su...
JECON B. NADELA The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks
VOLTAIRE A lot of her points were later in the game, so I have to take some consolation in that.
BETH COMBS He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap...
UMBERTO ECO The only consolation to farmers is that the price of seafood will go up further. So when production ...
BRIAN BETHUNE Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Love is not consolation. It is light.
SIMONE WEIL And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the end...
BIBLE The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI Us and Scotland is a huge rivalry. Earlier in the season they just killed us. It's a good way to end...
JAMES TJEERDSMA Knowing that they think that much of me makes it extra special. It's kind of a consolation prize for...
CASEY HAMPTON A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
BERTHE MORISOT It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their pro...
ROBBIE ROSS People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
L. M. MONTGOMERY It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the ...
MARK SHIELDS The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If it's any consolation to you, I'm petrified.
TONY JACKLIN We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm so...
VERONICA ROTH I feel very sorry for your victims. It will be some small consolation that they can get two thirds o...
GARETH EDWARDS That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progr...
FRANK MOORE COLBY Food is the consolation prize. So many times, it's not even close to what you really want.
LINDA SPANGLE We get pretty geared up for this. We say every year that we don't play in consolation games.
BRAD ZANCANARO Someone is going to the finals who won?t belong there, and someone in the consolation bracket will h...
KACEY MCNULTY [Chowder] breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been...
GEORGE ORWELL What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer...
THOMAS A KEMPIS What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer...
THOMAS KEMPIS I fully realize that all of this may be no consolation to the victims who suffered as a result of my...
RICHARD RUSSELL It's been a really volatile week. I think the bottoms that we made this week will hold, but that's s...
DONALD SELKIN I have found consolation, for example, in C. S. Lewis's depiction in The Great Divorce of hell as a ...
PHILIP YANCEY Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
JEFF BUCKLEY Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me c...
LEO TOLSTOY Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the so...
ORHAN PAMUK Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no ...
THOMAS FULLER But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
BIBLE It's not a bad consolation prize for not being in the Grey Cup,
DAMON ALLEN sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the...
CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incom...
MARTIN LUTHER The only consolation is that prices in North County tend to run about 3 cents cheaper (than the rest...
CHARLES LANGLEY Sometimes good memories are randomly kept in our subconscious corners, only to find out later that t...
JECON B. NADELA I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Lone...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
WILFRID SHEED Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It's disappointing, but everyone gets their fair share (of injuries), if there's any consolation I'v...
MICHAEL OWEN When the itch is inside the boot, scratching outside provides little consolation
CHINESE PROVERBS On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terri...
BOBBY GHOSH There is some consolation in the fact that even if your dreams haven't come true- neither have your ...
UNKNOWN To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
GEORGE SANTAYANA To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic
GEORGE SANTAYANA There was some consolation for them in that the person responsible was still on scene when police ar...
ANDY BURGESS For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman ...
ERIC AMBLER For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman la...
ERIC AMBLER For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Like I told the guys, that's a good basketball team. We hung in there, we kept fighting, but that is...
BYRON SCOTT He was pretty disappointed after that loss in the semifinals and consolation semifinals. He knows he...
LEE LUNDVALL There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and s...
DONALD WUERL The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...
ROBERT HUGHES So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together...
BIBLE It is a small consolation to know that he has been spared a lot more pain and suffering but today we...
BILLY MCNEILL People who give up their own land too readily need careful weighing, exactly as do those who are so ...
RICHARD WEAVER You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads l...
MARGARET MITCHELL Aaron had a tough match, but he came back in the consolation rounds.
AARON NELSON A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, h...
ROSE MACAULAY Your visit, however brief, would be a consolation and encouragement.
FATHER ANDREA SANTORO It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and c...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
ORHAN PAMUK Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
JAMES HARRINGTON Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we se...
BROTHER LAWRENCE I picked up Australia at 20/1 and then 45/1. Only for consolation reasons should the unthinkable hap...
CHRIS WESTON It's nice to be competitive against these teams and we have been. Junction is a talented team at the...
SILAS ALMGREN Consolation games are tough, just by their nature. We got off to a slow start, and Dartmouth took it...
DON VAUGHAN It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always says in Turkey, when they...
CHARLES DICKENS My child, I am the Lord Who gives strength in the day of trouble. Come to Me when all is not well wi...
THOMAS à KEMPIS Philosophers console themselves with explanations.
MARTY RUBIN Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878 Jesus hath many love...
THOMAS À KEMPIS In 'Growing Stronger,' I expose my most painful moments and open my heart, thoughts and pers...
THALIA In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD With all the team problems we had the bronze medal for the women was a superb consolation.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only sick music makes money today.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
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