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  • All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.

    Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Unnamable”, p.25, Faber & Faber
  • Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

  • I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's in my office, and it has watched over each of the fifteen books I've written. It also helped me find my wife.

    Book   Wife   Office  
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  • One of the biggest limitations on consoles is the amount of memory available to the game.

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  • The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you just embarrass yourself. Unless you're cross, in which case... always use force! Amy: Shall I run and get the manual? The Doctor: I threw it in a supernova. Amy: You threw the manual in a supernova? Why? The Doctor: Because I disagreed with it! Now stop talking to me when I'm cross!

    Running   Pain   Doctors  
  • Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.

    Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.

    Eye   Best Effort   Grace  
  • There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

  • I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

  • We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.

    Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”
  • We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don't know if that's necessarily such a good thing.

    Mother   Reality   Dying  
  • Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.

    Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.47
  • If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it can start your day, there is the warmth and the ritual, and you can share it; you make someone a cup of tea and you offer it to them.

    Tea   Want   Cups  
    "'I have had some trouble sleeping': Matt Smith admits Doctor Who stress is keeping him awake at night" by Mark Jefferies, www.mirror.co.uk. April 3, 2013.
  • A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

    Humor   Judging   Action  
    "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.
  • Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

    Flower   Heart   Trying  
  • The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions
  • Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

    "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.
  • - Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise? She shook her head. - That my admiration for you is painfully strong? - I want Van – she cried – and not intangible admiration. - Intangible? You goose. You my gauge it, you may brush it once very lightly with the knuckles of you gloved hand. I said knuckles. I said once. That will do. I can't kiss you. Not even your burning face. Good-bye, pet. Tell Edmond to take a nap after he returns. I shall need him at two in the morning.

  • One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life.

    Prime Time Press Conference on Iraq War, delivered on 13 April 2004 from the East Room of the White House
  • I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.

    Love   Heart   Hands  
    Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.543
  • Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.339, Penguin UK
  • There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.

    Men   Self   Enemy  
  • Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation.

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”
  • It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After that, I would console myself for the plainness of my fellow bus-riders by dissecting them in my imagination.

  • Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

    Self   Doe   World  
  • If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

  • Little things console us because little things afflict us.

    Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.62, Cambridge University Press
  • We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.

    Shopping   World   Should  
    "Banksy: Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.
  • It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.

    Book   Sadness   Console  
  • Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

    Witty   Flower   Giving  
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