Definition of Consolation

Consolation

The act of consoling; the state of being consoled; allevation of misery or distress of mind; refreshment of spirit; comfort; that which consoles or comforts the spirit.

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Consolation Quotations

Love is not consolation. It is light.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
Henry David Thoreau

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Richard Dawkins

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

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
Brendan Behan

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
Christopher Columbus

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
James Thurber

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
Thomas Kempis

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Carl Sandburg

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
Paul Cezanne

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
Katherine Heigl

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.
David Cronenberg

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Heinrich Heine

I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.
Jay Roach

If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.
Mark Shields

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 Levi-Strauss

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
Gerard De Nerval

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
Wilfrid Sheed

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac Disraeli

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
Jeff Buckley

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
Berthe Morisot

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Consolation Translations

consolation in Afrikaans is troos
consolation in Dutch is heul, vertroosting, troost
consolation in French is consolation, baume
consolation in German is Trost
consolation in Italian is consolazione
consolation in Latin is consolatio, levamentum
consolation in Spanish is consuelo

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