Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.
Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.
We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.
The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.
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.
We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.
That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think that allows you to reach for the best part of your reader instead of a lot of the internet stuff, in which you're kind of reaching for the worst or the most shallow part of your reader.
The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.
The future: A consolation for those who have no other.
Let is walk. . . joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life. . . These pains will have an end when our life ends, after which there will be only joy, only contentment, only eternal consolation.
My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.
Even success needs its consolations.
Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough
If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.
If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy.
The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.