It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem
Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.
What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for [Donald] Trump, and do not participate in that brand of animus, that gas-bagging of enormous bigotry.
Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving.
And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.
Whenever there's a crying kid, I have to make sure that the kid stops crying.
False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.
My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.
Women are mad at me. A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me. Like, ‘How could you? How could you let a girl like that go?’ I feel like I want to give people hugs, they seem so sad. Rachel and I should be the ones getting hugs! Instead, we’re consoling everybody else.
I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.
