Philosophers console themselves with explanations.
Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.
Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.
Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
Man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some...
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.
Saint John, in a moment of confusion, tells us not to love the world because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,is not of the Father, but...