Solace Quotes

“Grief best is pleased with grief's society.”

“The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”