Grief is crowned with consolation. [ William Shakespeare ]

Solitude is the consolation of hearts betrayed.

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Sympathy is the solace of the poor, but for the rich there is consolation. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Consolation indiscreetly pressed only aggravates the poignancy of the affliction. [ Rousseau ]

The friendship of a man is often a support; that of a woman is always a consolation. [ Rochepedre ]

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. [ Balzac ]

Bachelors are providential beings: God created them for the consolation of widows and the hope of maids. [ De Finod ]

The remembrance of the good done those we have loved, is the only consolation left us when we have lost them. [ Demoustier ]

The post is the grand connecting link of all transactions, of all negotiations. Those who are absent, by its means become present; it is the consolation of life. [ Voltaire ]

A man explodes with indignation when a woman ceases to love him, yet he soon finds consolation; a woman is less demonstrative when deserted, and remains longer inconsolable.

Woman has a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope. [ Sainte-Foix ]

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools. [ Sterling ]

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief. [ Epictetus ]

There never has been a nation that has not looked upon woman as the companion or the consolation of man, or as the sacred instrument of his life, and that has not honored her in those characters. [ A. de Musset ]

When we think of the tenderness, of the solicitude, of the protection, of the grace, of the charm, of the happiness, or at least of the consolation that woman brings to the life of man, one is tempted to speak to her only with uncovered head, and bowed knee. [ L. Desnoyers ]

These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [ Cicero ]

It is in the time of trouble, when some to whom we may have looked for consolation and encouragement regard us with coldness, and others, perhaps, treat us with hostility, that the warmth of the friendly heart and the support of the friendly hand acquire increased value and demand additional gratitude. [ Bishop Mant ]