Umberto Eco

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

Italian Novelist

Elaine Pagels

I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it has been. I mean, I love much of that tradition. But somehow, that just didn't speak to me in the way that it does to some.

American Historian

Edward Hirsch

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.

American Poet

Henry David Thoreau

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

American Author

T. C. Boyle

I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

American Novelist

Joshua Cohen

Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.

American Writer

Orhan Pamuk

Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

Novelist

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Katherine Heigl

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

American Actress

Friedrich Nietzsche

German Philosopher

Used to express empathy or understanding when someone feels sad.

Emotional Support

It implies sincerity when offering comfort to someone in distress.

Genuine Commiseration

More about emotional support than physical or financial assistance.

Beyond Material Help

Something that distracts or diverts attention from sadness or disappointment.

Sorrow's Distraction

It's a personal source of relief that may not apply to everyone.

Personal Respite

Consolation doesn't have the same effect for everybody; it's subjective.

Unique Comfort

Acknowledges effort, even if the goal wasn't fully achieved.

Secondary Reward

Often seen as an encouragement to continue striving.

Motivational Symbol

It's important to know it's different from winning the top prize.

Not a Winner

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 One of humanity's most deadly assailants is a behavior-altering parasite, though if it's any consolation, it's not our brains that are being hijacked.

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 Truth or habit? Light or shadow? Hard choices, but if it's any consolation, you're not alone. There are lots of us down here.