{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Frank Bidart","tags":["art","consolation","mundane-life"],"id":18520,"author_id":"Frank+Bidart"},{"text":"Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affluent","comfort","consolation","consolation-prize","console","dead","death","hereafter","immortal","immortality","life","life-after-death","mortal","mortality","poor","poverty","poverty-stricken","rich","wealth","wealthy"],"id":53958,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If you deliberately and passionately grieve over the consolations of darkness and participate with your spirit in their annihilation, you would put yourself above other forms of life and lives of other people.","author":"Ivo Žurić","tags":["consolation","darkness","furmani","grief","purpose-of-life","spiritual"],"id":75216,"author_id":"Ivo+%C5%BDuri%C4%87"},{"text":"I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["consolation","loneliness","love"],"id":86553,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"What though the radiance which was once so bright\tBe now for ever taken from my sight,\tThough nothing can bring back the hour\tOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;\tWe will grieve not, rather find\tStrength in what remains behind.","author":"William Wordsworth","tags":["consolation","grief","loss","mortality","passing","splendor","strength"],"id":91973,"author_id":"William+Wordsworth"},{"text":"[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.","author":"Perry Anderson","tags":["consolation","politics","realism","resistance-movement","silver-linings","stoicism"],"id":114987,"author_id":"Perry+Anderson"},{"text":"Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.","author":"Boethius","tags":["body-and-mind","compassion","consolation","evil","goodness","hatred","illness","thinking-positively","virtue","wickedness","wisdom"],"id":137442,"author_id":"Boethius"},{"text":"Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did... You stay in, we'll laugh and drink fruit liqueur and we'll drive away your depression in a flash. I'll sing if you like. Or else let's go and sit in the dark in your study as we used to, and you'll tell me about your depression... You have such suffering eyes. I'll look into them and cry, and we'll both feel better.","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["consolation","depression","eyes","suffering"],"id":141719,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"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.","author":"Frank Bidart","tags":["art","comfort","consolation"],"id":154324,"author_id":"Frank+Bidart"},{"text":"But I will finally be with Jesus. That is my one consolation, and it is enough to make death almost no worry at all.","author":"Therese May","tags":["consolation","death","jesus","no-worry"],"id":183699,"author_id":"Therese+May"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}