CONSOLATION

Related Subjects: Comfort, Grief, Pity, Religion, Sorrow, Sympathy

1. Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction."—TRYON EDWARDS
   

2. God has commanded Time to console the unhappy.—JOUBERT, Pensees
   

3. Consolation, in discreetly pressed upon us when we are suffering under affliction, only serves to increase our pain and to render our grief more poignant.—ROUSSEAU
   

4. Before an affliction is digested, consolation comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late; but there is a mark between these two, as fine almost as a hair, for a comforter to take aim at.—STERNE