Consolations Quotes
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The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.
karen blixen— "The Dreamers"
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
calvin coolidge— From the speech ‘Plymouth, Labor Day’ (1 September 1919), as printed in Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2nd Ed.), Houghton Mifflin, pp. 200-201 : see link above
We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
abraham isaac kook— Orot Hatchiah 5.
All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies His lonely audience to none. Its secrets are holy; its asylum, inviolate; its consolations, sure; and all are open to the simple heart-word, "Thou art my hiding-place."
james martineau— P. 281. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.
charlotte brontë— Ch. XXII: The Letter
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.
— Simone de Beauvoir, in The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947), Conclusion
We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
— Orot Hatchiah 5. (Quotes)
