Solace Quotes

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
Alice Walker

Sister, Anywhere, Comforting

Writing is the supreme solace.
W. Somerset Maugham

Writing, Supreme

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
Mason Cooley

Parents, Wanted, Denied

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
J. K. Rowling

Poetry, Read, Touch

I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
Daniel Craig

Love, Character, Understand

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
Paul Simon

Hope, Talent, Growing

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
Studs Terkel

Faith, Someone, May

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.
Studs Terkel

Respect, Envy, Touch

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
Lisa Bonet

God, Best, Friend

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.
Story Musgrave

Beauty, Nature, Hard

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.
Simon Newcomb

Self, Person, Adversity

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.
George Crabbe

End, Friend, Joy

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.
Harry Reid

Depression, Give, Understand

You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom.
Linda Fiorentino

Family, Movies, Place

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

Good, Real, Action

Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.
Brandon Thomas

Music, Far, Last

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.
Leslie Jamison

Nice, Past, Important

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

Life, Age, Middle

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