The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.
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The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.
ROGER SCRUTON Genuine people are God's emissary. They rarely occur but when they do, they speak from the heart. Su...
JECON B. NADELA For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in thei...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love is not consolation. It is light.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is no consolation,
OLIVER KAHN A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
BERTHE MORISOT If it's any consolation to you, I'm petrified.
TONY JACKLIN We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm so...
VERONICA ROTH Love is not consolation. It is light.
SIMONE WEIL Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.
ALAN BENNETT Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.
MARY BALOGH It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
JEFF BUCKLEY There was some consolation for them in that the person responsible was still on scene when police ar...
ANDY BURGESS [Chowder] breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
KATHERINE HEIGL The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI Sometimes good memories are randomly kept in our subconscious corners, only to find out later that t...
JECON B. NADELA I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Lone...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
WILFRID SHEED Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks
VOLTAIRE Us and Scotland is a huge rivalry. Earlier in the season they just killed us. It's a good way to end...
JAMES TJEERDSMA For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman ...
ERIC AMBLER For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman la...
ERIC AMBLER It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the end...
BIBLE When the itch is inside the boot, scratching outside provides little consolation
CHINESE PROVERBS I recognise that any sentence I impose will not bring Triston back or give any real consolation to h...
ANTHONY MORRIS Your visit, however brief, would be a consolation and encouragement.
FATHER ANDREA SANTORO The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
GEORGE SANTAYANA To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic
GEORGE SANTAYANA Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progr...
FRANK MOORE COLBY Aaron had a tough match, but he came back in the consolation rounds.
AARON NELSON It's not a bad consolation prize for not being in the Grey Cup,
DAMON ALLEN In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incom...
MARTIN LUTHER But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
BIBLE My child, I am the Lord Who gives strength in the day of trouble. Come to Me when all is not well wi...
THOMAS à KEMPIS Philosophers console themselves with explanations.
MARTY RUBIN Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
JAMES HARRINGTON I don't understand this jury. But I have one consolation: (Nichols and Timothy McVeigh) are still go...
JANNIE COVERDALE I don't understand this jury, ... But I have one consolation: (Nichols and Timothy McVeigh) are stil...
JANNIE COVERDALE This grief is crowned with consolation, you old smock brings
forth a new petticoat, and indeed the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...
ROBERT HUGHES What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer...
THOMAS A KEMPIS What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer...
THOMAS KEMPIS Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap...
UMBERTO ECO Food is the consolation prize. So many times, it's not even close to what you really want.
LINDA SPANGLE Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
ORHAN PAMUK A lot of her points were later in the game, so I have to take some consolation in that.
BETH COMBS With all the team problems we had the bronze medal for the women was a superb consolation.
MIKE DOWN Like I told the guys, that's a good basketball team. We hung in there, we kept fighting, but that is...
BYRON SCOTT Humility is not an imaginary thing.
JULIO IGLESIAS The only consolation is that prices in North County tend to run about 3 cents cheaper (than the rest...
CHARLES LANGLEY Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure; and the ...
VICTOR JOSEPH ÉTIENNE DE JOUY Knowing that they think that much of me makes it extra special. It's kind of a consolation prize for...
CASEY HAMPTON Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI What are we doing (getting) a consolation prize for saying we blocked better than the other guys? Yi...
CHESTER PITTS I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champio...
JUSTIN GATLIN Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
RUMI There is some consolation in the fact that even if your dreams haven't come true- neither have your ...
UNKNOWN Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are f...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of...
JEFF TWEEDY That is one consolation when you are poorthere are so many more things you can imagine about.
L. M. MONTGOMERY Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I...
JAMES THURBER In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every wor...
FULTON J. SHEEN Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the so...
ORHAN PAMUK Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the...
CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS Our affections are our consolation and comfort; and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link...
CHARLES DICKENS I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
JOSH BILLINGS It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their pro...
ROBBIE ROSS Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me c...
LEO TOLSTOY kept on talking and talking, you couldn't contain him, an avalanche of friendly phrases and jokes. I...
GIULIANA SGRENA Both Allison and Kate came on strong in consolation matches after playing tough first-round matches.
LISA LINK There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It's been a really volatile week. I think the bottoms that we made this week will hold, but that's s...
DONALD SELKIN Literature is the real life of imaginary people.
STEFANOS LIVOS Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the ...
AHDAF SOUEIF It's disappointing, but everyone gets their fair share (of injuries), if there's any consolation I'v...
MICHAEL OWEN In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do...
ALBERT CAMUS In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we d...
ALBERT CAMUS With all profound love poured generously over Family, Religion and Nation, Humanity is left in lurch...
ANUJ SOMANY Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder t...
THOMAS PAINE All's fair in love and war.
AMERICAN PROVERB I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With...
CASEY HAMPTON I picked up Australia at 20/1 and then 45/1. Only for consolation reasons should the unthinkable hap...
CHRIS WESTON He went out so quickly we wanted to offer him a consolation prize and get him into the Web sites' bi...
GLENN M. CADEMARTORI We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
SIMONE WEIL I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
MARY MCCARTHY We get pretty geared up for this. We say every year that we don't play in consolation games.
BRAD ZANCANARO I think there was some consolation there after seeing how many teams they had blown out this season.
IVAN CHAMBERS Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agree...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always...
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ROGER EBERT If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I gue...
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ROGER BART No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever b...
ROGER EBERT In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.
ROGER AILES Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
ROGER MAHONY A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have b...
ROGER MOORE I believe the GOP should pitch its big-top tent around fiscal conservatism and a muscular foreign po...
ROGER STONE Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
Roger Ebert
ROGER EBERT Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
ROGER CRAWFORD I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise...
ROGER ZELAZNY Burberry makes the best version of the traditional trench coat, which can have a zipper and button-i...
ROGER STONE Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unkno...
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