{"quotes":[{"text":"To find solace in the wrong area as it seems to be at first is to seek God for direction.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["area","find","solace","wrong"],"id":2188,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just record a busy night in The Green Man. Sometimes sheep, seals, skylarks, the wind turbine. If Liam were home there would be some Liam. The summer fair. The Fastnet Race. I would unfold my map of Clear Island. Those tapes prised the lid off homesickness and rattled out the contents, but always at the bottom was solace.","author":"David Mitchell","tags":["family","homesickness","solace"],"id":10614,"author_id":"David+Mitchell"},{"text":"The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.As long as this exists, and that should be forever, I know that there will be solace for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances. I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.","author":"Anne Frank","tags":["alone","beauty","comfort","fear","happy","healing","lonely","nature","simplicity","solace","suffering"],"id":16446,"author_id":"Anne+Frank"},{"text":"My soul is utterly frantic for that single place of perfect refuge from which I can clearly see the winds rip and hear the tempest tear, yet despite the ferocity of the tumult I rest in such a sublime peace it is as if neither existed at all. And if I have not yet found such a place, it is because I have not yet found God.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["calm","fear","fortress","god","obstacles","peace","refuge","rest","safety","security","solace","storm","trials","tumult","winds"],"id":20116,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"He stroked her back and kept a fierce grip on her like she’d fade away into one of the thousands of ghosts in this cemetery.","author":"Katherine McIntyre","tags":["cemetery","emptiness","fade-away","ghosts","grief","haunted","loneliness","solace","sorrow"],"id":35289,"author_id":"Katherine+McIntyre"},{"text":"He found solace in what he wrote. It was an attempt to discover who he was at the moment.","author":"Brian Krans","tags":["self-discovery","solace","writing"],"id":42440,"author_id":"Brian+Krans"},{"text":"No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.","author":"Elfriede Jelinek","tags":["art","solace","suffering"],"id":54679,"author_id":"Elfriede+Jelinek"},{"text":"A major determining factor by which a superior human can be isolated from his average counterparts is his very isolation—the degree to which he naturally removes himself from mass-media input and stimuli. You cannot be an elitist, a Magician, and be plugged into the system.","author":"Anton Szandor LaVey","tags":["isolation","magic","media","satanism","seclusion","solace","tv"],"id":58325,"author_id":"Anton+Szandor+LaVey"},{"text":"A person tied to the world of sorrows can return to nature for inspiration. Nature provides solace to troubled hearts.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["inspiration","nature","sad","sad","sadness","sadness","solace","sorrow","sorrow"],"id":77529,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn't be read in school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["adoption","daughters","finding-meaning","healing","inspiration","literature","mothers","philosophy","poetry","reading","solace","tough-life"],"id":90775,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":47,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}