Natalie Portman

Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.

American Actress

Leslie Jamison

Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.

American Novelist

Sam Taylor-Johnson

At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.

English Director

Jean Nidetch

Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life. If you are lonely, food is not going to be your company. If you are sad, food is not going to give you solace.

American Businesswoman

George Crabbe

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

English Poet

Harry Reid

So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.

American Politician

Greg Mottola

When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.

American Director

John Burns

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

English Activist

Oscar

Before every game I pray, I find solace. It helps me to relax and prepare.

Brazilian Footballer

Mary Roberts Rinehart

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

Use 'solace' to express finding relief from emotional distress.

Emotional Support

'Solace' usually refers to emotional comfort, not physical help.

Not Physical

Most appropriate in serious or reflective contexts, often related to loss or disappointment.

Serious Contexts

To 'solace' someone is to provide them with comfort or consolation actively.

Give Comfort

When using 'solace' as a verb, it often involves emotional exchanges between people.

Emotionally Charged

'Solace' as a verb conveys a sense of deep empathy and understanding in the act of comforting.

Empathetic Connection

 In other words, hold your horses when you're coming to judge people. You don't necessarily know what someone's true value is. That is an unknown part of them, and we shouldn't behave as though it is known. There is another source of solace and comfort for all this. When we think about failing in life, when we think about failure,

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 I believe most likely most of you here have lost someone. And I have found it a genuine comfort, a solace, to know that we aren't the only beings on this earth who feel love and grief. And I think this is important.

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 rather than sending them to the execution chamber. Why has that happened? It hasn't happened because of a dissolution of popular support for the death penalty. Death penalty opponents take great solace in the fact

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 where you get your hair cut or your beard trimmed. No, it's much more than that. Historically, the barbershop has been a safe haven for black men. It's a place where we go for friendship, solidarity and solace.

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 I'll be okay. Please don't worry." She was a solace for us, and she consoled us. Dear brothers and sisters, we learned from her how to be resilient in the most difficult times,

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 and in these extraordinary times there is one thing that can offer solace to everyone the wonder of the natural world