Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
RumiTags: loss grief bereavement reincarnation consolation
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Verse XXVII
Tags: love poetry loss sorrow bereavement consolation
Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTags: solitude consolation mood
[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.
Perry AndersonTags: politics stoicism realism consolation resistance-movement silver-linings
I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.
Cecil CastellucciTags: consolation
Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?'
'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.
Tags: men husbands consolation fickleness
This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work of art which you have the insight, sensitivity, and — like it or not — peculiar set of experiences to appreciate. Amazing thing to say, the consolation of horror in art is that it actually intensifies our panic, loudens it on the sounding-board of our horror-hollowed hearts, turns terror up full blast, all the while reaching for that perfect and deafening amplitude at which we may dance to the bizarre music of our own misery.
Thomas LigottiTags: art horror consolation
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'?
Veronica RothTags: humor consolation
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind.
Tags: strength poetry loss consolation
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.
Héloïse d'ArgenteuilTags: friendship friends letters pleasure memories portraits regret longing company missing consolation absence pictures images
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