“ Do not go to my grave. Mary knows, I am not there. Look for me in between pages and on people’s lips.Do not go to my old school. Do not go to my old house —I am not in any of those places. Look for me… Kamand Kojouri
“ The stratagems by which briefly youameliorated, even seeminglyuntwisted what still twists within you —you loved their taste and lay thereon your sidenursing like a puppy. Frank Bidart
“ Drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite,within I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns Frank Bidart
“ [A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them. Perry Anderson
“ If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters… Héloïse d'Argenteuil
“ I have suffered great losses and have been blessed with great consolations, but whatever life may give me or take away, this is the simple wisdom that will always light my life: I have loved, passiona… Nando Parrado
“ It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradictio… Thomas a Kempis
“ It is no consolation to reflect that every cause itself is an effect, making the search for causes and reasons a fool’s errand. Zia Haider Rahman
“ You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person! Oscar Wilde
“ No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.Comforter, where, where is your comforting?Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?My cries h… Gerard Manley Hopkins
“ Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.Scripps: No.Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation. Alan Bennett
“ I say, indeed: "consolation in the nonsentience of nature." For nonsentience is consoling; the world of nonsentience is the world outside human life; it is eternity; "it is the sea gone off with the s… Milan Kundera
“ This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work of art which you have the insight, sensitivity, and — like it… Thomas Ligotti
