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I hope they find consolation in this difficult time. – German President Joachim Gauck	Found on CNN 9 years ago
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. – Frank Moore Colby	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. – Claude Lévi-Strauss	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies -- and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern. – James Thurber	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past. – Phyllis McGinley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. – Victor Hugo	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome. – John Jay Chapman	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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. – Plutarch	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Lest not regret. It is by mere fleeting chance that any of us exist.I do not believe the paths we take and the choices we make are an illusion as some may.Every person can alter things in their own life and even affect others, much like the stars and planets that are already set on a path of there own, affecting many others around them.The life and death of a star or even a galaxy can give us a feeling of insignificance compared to our own lives for who will care once we have all turned to dust; I say care for you the future is jus another moment in time in which we cannot regret.So live your life with no regrets and it shall be a happy one, the thought of death is the most fearful thing there is:hence why most never give it much thought.It is but a consolation dying in your bed many years from now knowing that you left nothing on the table,held nothing back and led your life full without regret. – Ronnie Rickner	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. – Thomas Paine, Common Sense	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction". – Tryon Edwards	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. – Eric Ambler	added by anonymous 13 years ago
...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way. – Imgard Schloegl	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The love of nature is consolation against failure. – Berthe Morisot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy -- but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life. – Martin Gore	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction. – Tryon Edwards	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. – Eric Ambler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. – Publilius Syrus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I hope they find consolation in this difficult time.

– German President Joachim Gauck

Found on CNN
9 years ago

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

– Frank Moore Colby

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

– Claude Lévi-Strauss

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies -- and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.

– James Thurber

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

– Phyllis McGinley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

– Victor Hugo

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

– Voltaire

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

– John Jay Chapman

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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.

– Plutarch

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Lest not regret. It is by mere fleeting chance that any of us exist.I do not believe the paths we take and the choices we make are an illusion as some may.Every person can alter things in their own life and even affect others, much like the stars and planets that are already set on a path of there own, affecting many others around them.The life and death of a star or even a galaxy can give us a feeling of insignificance compared to our own lives for who will care once we have all turned to dust; I say care for you the future is jus another moment in time in which we cannot regret.So live your life with no regrets and it shall be a happy one, the thought of death is the most fearful thing there is:hence why most never give it much thought.It is but a consolation dying in your bed many years from now knowing that you left nothing on the table,held nothing back and led your life full without regret.

– Ronnie Rickner

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

– Thomas Paine, Common Sense

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction".

– Tryon Edwards

added by anonymous
13 years ago

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

– Eric Ambler

added by anonymous
13 years ago

...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way.

– Imgard Schloegl