Solace Quotes

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

Grief best is pleased with grief's society.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.