The 80 best phrases of consolation

A collection of phrases about consolation, the act of giving emotional support to those who suffer.

The consolation is not only to give condolences, but also to show understanding and affection to any moment of difficulty that someone is going through.

It even serves as a soothing when we cannot achieve a desired goal. This experience goes beyond sadness and pity; it helps us understand that we don't always win, but we can learn a valuable lesson.

In this article you will find a selection of inspirational phrases of consolation inspirational, commented.

The most memorable phrases of consolation

These are the best phrases of comfort, which can be of great use in difficult times.

1. Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flights to the imagination, comfort to sadness, and life and joy to all things. (Plato)

Music is one of the greatest comforts in the world.

2. There are better things ahead than those we leave behind. (C. S. Lewis)

In a difficult situation it is important not to hold on to suffering, but to focus on finding a solution to the problem.

3. It is preferable to console oneself than to hang oneself. (Diogenes of Sinope)

If you need to cry, do it. But do not stay too long in that experience.

4. If faith were not the first of the virtues, it would always be the greatest of consolations. It is both. (Fernán Caballero)

Many find consolation in their faith.

5. It is a consolation in great misfortunes that a greater misfortune cannot come. (Seneca)

It is a way to regain strength.

6. The unhappy is not comforted by company in mourning.

You cannot help someone who does not want to be helped.

7. Kiss me for desire, not for consolation. (Jeff Buckley)

Never force a relationship out of pity.

8. The thought of suicide is a powerful means of consolation: with it one manages to endure more than one bad night. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

A strange way to justify suicide.

9. In times of misery and suffering, I will embrace you, I will cradle you and make your pain mine. When you cry, I cry, when you suffer, I suffer.

Surround yourself with people who will be with you through thick and thin.

10. There is no more skillful consolation than the thought that we have chosen our misfortunes. (Jorge Luis Borges)

Every action has its consequence and the ideal is to learn from them.

11. I do not think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains. (Anne Frank)

One way to find comfort is in our positive thoughts.

12. Many a pity for many, a comfort for fools. (Proverb)

There are those who console themselves when they see the misfortune of others.

13. The only thing that can console a man for the stupid things he does is the pride he takes in doing them. (Oscar Wilde)

After all, every choice is personal.

14. Hope lies primarily with those who find no consolation. (Theodor Adorno)

They find it as a way of continuing to persevere.

15. The poor have no consolation even with a raise in salary.

Sometimes money is not everything.

16. The defects of great men are the consolation of fools. (Isaac Disraeli)

No one is perfect, although some think they are.

17. Imagination comforts men for what they cannot be. Humor comforts them for what they are. (Winston Churchill)

Imagination can be motivating but also threatening.

18. Most people fear change, but if you see it as something you can always count on it can be a comfort, there are not many things you can really count on.

Change can be positive if we look at it that way.

19. Patria is that, equity, respect for all opinions and consolation for the sad. (José Martí)

What the homeland means.

20. There is nothing like the active work of comforting the most needy. (Anne Brontë)

In comforting others, we also find consolation.

21. How much comfort we would find if we told our secrets. (John Churton Collins)

There are secrets that are heavier kept than shared.

22. He had always offered the same words of comfort: courage, fortitude. Time heals all wounds. (Taylor Caldwell)

It is necessary to give ourselves time to process and overcome any wounds.

23. Tears are a comfort to women and a torment to men.

Different ways of looking at tears.

24. The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks. (Voltaire)

It is a favorite way to feel freedom.

25. One of the greatest comforts in life is friendship, and one of the greatest comforts of friendship is to have someone to confide a secret to. (Alessandro Manzoni)

Friendship is a very powerful relationship for any person.

26. As I am still weak in love, imperfect in virtue, I need your strength and your consolations. (Thomas of Kempis)

Sometimes we need another person to find our way again.

27. You can't comfort and heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel it. (Mandy Hale)

Total unburdening is necessary first before healing.

28. Resignation, giving up all hope, is a comfort akin to death, and therefore a great comfort. (Benito Pérez Galdós)

There are things to which we must resign ourselves, because we cannot change them.

29. There are more proverbs than loaves of bread, and when I have no bread, I ask a proverb for comfort.

Words have a great effect on people's feelings.

30. The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is given to the less talented as a consolation prize. (Robert Hughes)

On consolation as a form of reward.

31. Bad consolation is to have friends of misfortune. (Seneca)

Remove from your life those who bring you no positivity.

32. Whatever happens tomorrow, we will have had today.

Enjoy the present.

33. For anyone who is afraid, lonely or unhappy, the best remedy is to go outdoors, somewhere where you can be totally alone, alone with the sky, with nature and with God. (Anne Frank)

An excellent way to find comfort and encouragement.

34. Only religion can make men endure inequalities of rank, because it has consolation for everything. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

An interesting criticism of religion.

35. A father is a treasure, a brother a comfort. A friend is both. (Benjamin Franklin)

Friends are the family we choose to have.

36. Cold and insipid is consolation when it is not wrapped in some remedy. (Plato)

A consolation is useless if it does not offer a solution.

37. There is no mourning without consolation.

It is in these moments when we most need support.

38. I have had no consolation, it has been very painful to see that in such a short time you have forgotten me. (Violeta Parra)

When loneliness feels eternal.

39. To be free of guilt is the greatest consolation. (Cicero)

There is nothing more peaceful than to have a clear conscience.

40. Nothing consoles so much in our afflictions as a noble resolution. (Armando Palacio Valdés)

Finding a way out will always bring relief.

41. Just as a day well spent gives you a happy dream, a life well lived gives you a happy death. (Leonardo da Vinci)

Live your life without regrets.

42. Do not say with sorrow "he is no longer here". Say with gratitude that "he was here". (Hebrew proverb)

A great way to cope with a loss.

43. That which is beautiful never dies, but passes into another kind of beauty. (Thomas Bailey Aldrich)

Things only die when they are forgotten.

44. Solitude is a comfort to a saddened soul. (Khalil Gibran)

Solitude can be a moment of personal reunion.

45. A tiny consolation is but a tiny reminder of sorrow. (Oliver Goldsmith)

In this case it is not consolation, it is pity.

46. There is a certain comfort in the familiar. (Kristin Hannah)

Known things offer security.

47. This pain gives hope, which is the beauty of life, the supreme beauty, that is, the supreme consolation. (Miguel de Unamuno)

Pain from another perspective.

48. When the itch is inside the boot, scratching outside it offers little consolation. (Proverb)

Many seek comfort in unknown places.

49. Another man's evil is a poor consolation.

On comforting ourselves before the sorrows of others.

50. The human need for comfort is insatiable. (Stig Dagerman)

We are always in search of understanding and relief.

51. We do not know what is the comfort of the Heart but when we are left alone. (Edgar Allan Poe)

It is when we are alone that we appreciate things and relationships lost.

52. Love is not comfort, it is light. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

What love should really be.

53. The present constitutes the only patrimony of life, which can never be taken away from it. It is the only consolation for the transience of the individual, as long as the will to live is there. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

That is why it is important to focus more on the present and less on the past or future.

54. After all, tomorrow will be another day. (Vivien Leigh)

There is always hope for a better tomorrow.

55. That propitious something which is a comfort to all who shut their eyes when they look, or their minds when they reason. (Jane Austen)

Everyone has a place, a person or a thought to take refuge in.

56. There is one consolation in being ill, and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you had before. (Henry David Thoreau)

The hope that does not die.

57. Never mistake a single defeat for a final defeat. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Life is full of obstacles to overcome.

58. Try to understand that things are neither as good nor as bad as they seem to you now. (John Steinbeck)

Things acquire greater or lesser significance when we allow ourselves to be carried away by our emotions.

59. Like a bird singing in the rain, let memories of thankfulness survive in times of sorrow. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Sorrows are overcome with positive thoughts.

60. Never be offended, but when you see that someone needs comfort, give it to him and console and help each other... (Maria Mazzarello)

Everything good you do is returned to you.

61. Do not feel pain. Everything you lose comes back to you in another form. (Rumi)

Great things await us tomorrow.

62. Try and fail, but do not fail to try. (Stephen Kaggwa)

Do not let fear overcome you.

63. Modern science has not yet produced a soothing drug as effective as a few kind words. (Sigmund Freud)

Positive words are the ones that help us to emerge and move forward.

64. Books, though we take them for comfort, only add depth to our unhappiness. (Orhan Pamuk)

A dark side about books.

65. Sometimes the best way to help someone is simply to be near them. (Veronica Roth)

If you don't know how to help, just stay close.

66. But the consolation was that the painful memories were also soon forgotten. (Yoko Ogawa)

May the bad moments of the past not affect your present.

67. Death cannot kill what never dies. (William Penn)

Death is not the end.

68. If there is any consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love so much, it is the hope, always necessary, that perhaps it would have been better this way. (Paulo Coelho)

There are times when a loss is in everyone's best interest.

69. Little comforts us because little afflicts us. (Blaise Pascal)

Do not allow little things to make you ill.

70. He who is gone meets us more intensely than the man who lives. (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

People remain alive in our hearts.

71. Sex is the consolation for those who no longer have love. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Sex can be an escape route.

72. It is more appropriate for a man to laugh at life than to lament. (Seneca)

A more effective way to face life.

73. The mere juxtaposition of warm bodies affords the deepest of animal comforts. (Lionel Shriver)

Sex as a natural comfort.

74. The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude. (Dennis S. Brown)

It all depends on how we look at life.

75. Never say anything about yourself that you don't want to come true. (Brian Tracy)

The importance of trusting in our capabilities.

76. The consolation is to know that I have loved as much as I could love. (Laure Conan)

Never regret to love.

77. Learn to value yourself, which means: strive for your happiness. (Ayn Rand)

Do not fail to improve yourself for your benefit.

78. A nail pulls out another nail. (Proverb)

One of the most popular comfort sayings of all time.

79. What a worm calls the end of the world, God calls a butterfly. (Richard Bach)

Sometimes an ending is just a new beginning.

80. Wisdom is a restraint to the young, a comfort to the old, a wealth to the poor, and an ornament to the rich. (Diogenes of Sinope)

Wisdom in its different forms.