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“To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death.”

Would Be Universe Company Bears Consolation

Author:Publilius Syrus

“Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.”

Needs Soul Christian Christianity Atheism Positive Atheism Unhappy Consolation Console

Author:Andre Gide

“If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.”

Ifs Heart Sorrow Consolation Assured Countenance Prompts

Author:Saadi

“This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away.”

All Things Mortals Endurance Consolation Passing Away

Book:The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni

Source: The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni

“As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.”

Littles Real Home Suffering Christ Poor Seeing Streets Ought Comfort Angel Sick Charity Workers Invites Consolation Evangelism Slums Co Worker

Book:Mother Teresa: Essential Writings

Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings

“In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.”

“If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.”

Ifs World Believe Problem Pain Suffering Evil Sides Struggle Capacity Mercy Increase Wounds Overwhelming Have Faith Both Sides Consolation Ghastly Problem Of Evil

Author:Dorothy Day

“Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.”

Humans Culture Illusion Consolation Specialists

Book:Juan de Mairena

Source: Juan de Mairena

“Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.”

Late Too Late Sympathy Affliction Consolation

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

“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.”

Should Mind Soul Dream Religion Religious Return Reflection Disorder Consolation

Author:Gerard De Nerval

“When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation.”

People Want Needs Giving Stories Shows Problem Form Grief Focus Listening Empathy Disaster Temptation Consolation Bereavement Telling Stories Tiresome Consoling Other People's Problems

Author:Giles Andreae

“There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.”

People Knows Want Giving Writing Two Laughing Reader Towns Two Things Small Town Consolation

Author:Jan Karon

“And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!”