Emotional Solace Quotes

I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.

Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!

There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim's 'Losing My Mind,' or a pop music gem like Joni Mitchell's 'Help Me.'

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

Music was my solace, my refuge.

Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

For many years now, my source for salvific chicken soup has been the Sanamluang Cafe on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Kingsley Drive: crystalline broth, flecks of fried garlic, and a moist, steamed bird nesting on thick rice noodles and bean sprouts has stanched many a misery.

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

Ever since I was little, I loved soup! Whether I was sick or had a bad day, my momma would always make me soup!

When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.

Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast

Music can get me through anything.

I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

Hours after I gave birth to my first child, my husband cradled all five pounds of our boy and said, gently, 'Hi, Sweetpea.' Not 'Buddy' or 'Little Man.' Sweetpea. The word filled me with unanticipated comfort.

Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing.

Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.

'Music Is Worth Living For' is an exaltation of my love for music itself. It's also me pleading with myself to recognize music's eternal power and glory, in the face of hardship and pain.

The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

We are ugly but we have the music.

Wherever I go with my life, even the good times and the bad parts, only two people are with me: God and my music.