“If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma, are sometimes consoling.”

“There's nothing like active employment to console the afflicted.”

“The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.”

“We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.”

“Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.”

“If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.”

“A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.”

“Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”

“Ask of all-healing, all-consoling thought
Salve and solace for the woe it wrought.”

“I look to stories for consolation,the kind of small consolation that one needs to want to wake up everyday;as template for life;for news on how others live;for reminders that life's mysteries have no key”