Consoling Quotations

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.

Dan Nichols loved his job. He did a difficult job well. As we've heard, Dan was especially good with kids on medical jobs, consoling them and reassuring them on the way to the hospital.

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.