Console Quotations | Page 2

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

No one has ever come back from the other world. I can't console you, but one thing I can tell you, as long as my ideas are alive I will be alive. We live in a dark frightening age. One reason for this is the part played by the ideology of inhumanity

Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries

Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.