Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.
True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.
I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
Slander is the solace of malignity.
I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people can, but by and large people - that's one of the first things that goes, is the capacity to read meaningful literature. With grief, that's not true. For a while you can't read, but then you really are amenable to solace.
Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace.
…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.
My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.
O sweet solace of labors. [Lat. , O laborum Dulce lenimen. ]
Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem. . . The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.
Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed acquaintance, whom we like to have near us, whom we like to watch us, to wait on us, to approach us with the proximity of a nurse to a patient. It is not every friend whose eye is a light in a sickroom, whose presence is there a solace.
Some people have religion as a means of solace. But, I had a dreidel, so that was out.
Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.