Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt. - Donna Lynn Hope
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions. - Amit Kalantri
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling. - Iris Murdoch