#consolation

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#adult #both #child #consolation #culprit

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#consolation #finally #give #god #maybe

I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there. ↗

— Jay Roach

#couple #cut #dvd #enjoy #film

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. ↗

— Helen Keller

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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

#fate #his #man #seek #seems

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#heavenly #hinders #most #prayer #slow

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#away #burn #consolation #could #i

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find. ↗

— Wilfrid Sheed

#could #day #died #find #i

If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws. ↗

— Mark Shields

#bolton #broken #committee #consolation #endorsement

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#consolation #fun #little #mankind #mind