Solace Quotes

The most rewarding thing for someone like me is for someone else to find solace through my music.

‘River’ is all about tension and release. It’s about intimacy and solace. It’s about staring someone in the face and not backing down.

I was never ideological in any sense, or a slave to any particular politics or religion. My solace and my inspiration always came from books and literature.

I know one day I will take my last breath, and if I am in His ‘house’ when that happens, I pray my family can find a bit of solace and peace knowing that is where I saw Jesus for the first time.

You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I’ve had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom.

At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn’t the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.

It’s hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection.

Post my stint as a sportsman, I found solace in singing and trained for extended hours in Indian classical music.

I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently – it’s something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.

The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

I was in rehab for nine months, and I needed some solace and distraction. I was in town one day and I sort of stumbled into a jazz jam session, and kept going back.

I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a ‘macho’ dog but got this sweet little thing instead.

For solace, I love a book that opens up my perspective.

I get huge solace from chaos, especially if someone else is doing it, too, like, ‘Thank God it’s not just me!’

There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients, or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. So, in fact, the gamut of medical intervention is enormous.

They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and in the foxhole of my divorce, I found solace in walking to St. Patrick’s Cathedral and lighting candles.

Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that’s where my solace comes from.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

I cry a lot. I find great solace in it.

Music was my solace, my refuge.

Music has given me great solace in my times of hardship. It has also brought me fame and wealth, and I owe everything to music.

I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

My generation grew up on ‘The Daily Show.’ Jon Stewart gave me solace. He was the only person who I felt defended Muslims when crazy things were happening; the only place you could find a nuanced take on Iraq was Jon Stewart’s show.

When you’re a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.

Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life. If you are lonely, food is not going to be your company. If you are sad, food is not going to give you solace.

With eye upraised his master’s looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man’s guardian, and the poor man’s friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.

So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn’t give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.

It became my solace. Because it’s the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.

Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic.

I’ve found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.

I’ve met very lonely people who have 10,000 friends on Facebook. And it’s just not real. We’ve set up this artificial society in cyberspace. And that’s supposed to be a community, like a real community. It’s supposed to be where people go to get solace or friendship or have fun.

It’s the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

Whenever I’ve been stuck on a project, it’s always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It’s a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.

I was quite frustrated by school and found solace in going to the drama studio, doing stupid voices, and being an idiot. I then went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama and signed with a great agent in my third year.

Music has been my real solace. And that’s why I play music. And that’s why I’m so determined, or have been so determined to pursue what I wanted to do, come what may.

In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace.

I have always been fascinated by plants. I have always preferred plants to human beings. They give me an enormous amount of solace.

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

I never believe I tread the wrong path by becoming a disciple of Acharya Rajneesh. During the restless period of my life in the late ’70s, I found solace in his teachings. However later Vijay Anandsaab helped me to grow out of the influence of Acharya Rajneesh.

I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace – here on earth.