Top 50 Solace Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Music has always been a great solace for me. It’s still something that gives me far more joy than movies, I must say. I love movies, too. But somehow, music can transport you. There are so many different kinds of experiences you can have with music.

To the solace of his name, simply saying ‘Muhammad’ has an incredibly soothing effect on me.

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.

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.

Travelling alone gave me time and space, free of the pressures of trying to verbalise experiences, so I could simply feel the joy of my own existence. This was an extremely powerful realisation: I didn’t just find strength and solace in being alone, but I learned to love it.

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

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.

Before every game I pray, I find solace. It helps me to relax and prepare.

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

Obviously it’s much easier to say that you’re going to follow your passions when you’re financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn’t necessarily there.

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

I was not a cool kid. There was no reason for me to be marginalised. I was just a nerd. I was kind of weird, and I found solace in video games.

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.

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

Steve Jobs didn’t seek solace among minimum wage workers. He sought it from highly educated men and women who understood and shared his focus on growth, technology, and company-building.

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.

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.

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.

In the days following 9/11, when we were reeling and disoriented, there was a kind of solace to be found in old recordings, and even pseudo-folk singers like James Taylor seemed to be safeguarding something, drawing back bygone days.

Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the ‘man in white’ dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.

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

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.

If Watson beats me, at least it won’t enjoy it. And there is some solace in that.

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.

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.

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

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

I’ll be in ‘The Get Down’ from the creator Baz Luhrmann, and it takes place in the ’70s with South Bronx kids growing up at the rise of hip-hop and really when the city was at its financial worst. It’s about teens struggling with violence, drugs and gangs and trying to find solace in music and all that good stuff.

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.

Writing is the supreme solace.

I felt ‘Quantum of Solace’ completely lost its way. We were lucky on ‘Casino Royale:’ it was the origin story of Bond. Bond had the one and only affair that meant anything to him, and affected him throughout the rest of the series.

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.

I am your homegirl, at the end of the day, but I also feel very… outside. So if you’re finding solace in feeling outside with me, then we’re good to go.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

There is an amazing feminist writer called Lindy West; she wrote a very nice piece for The New York Times. She wrote about Woody Allen, saying if we can’t go after your work or your career, we will go after your legacy. You will never be remembered the same way. I think a lot of women will have to take solace in that.

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.

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.

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.

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

‘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.

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.

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.

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

I find solace in immersing myself in my work.

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.