Consoling Quotes

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.