Solace

Solace, from Old French solas, from Latin sōlācium "consolation", meaning comfort or consolation in a time of distress.

Solace may refer to:

  • Solace (Sarah McLachlan album), a 1991 music album by Sarah McLachlan
  • Solace (band), a heavy metal band from New Jersey, USA
  • Solace (film), a 2006 South Korean film
  • The USS Solace (AH-2), (AH-5) was the name of two United States Navy hospital ships.
  • Solace (Lengsel album), a 2000 music album by the Norwegian metal band Lengsel
  • Solace (Xavier Rudd album), a 2004 music album by Xavier Rudd
  • Solace (Ion Dissonance album), a 2005 music album by Canadian metal band Ion Dissonance
  • Solace (Jakob album), a 2006 music album by Jakob
  • Solace (Joplin), a 1909 composition by Scott Joplin
  • Solace, a fictional town in the Dragonlance novels
  • "Quantum of Solace", a James Bond short story by Ian Fleming. Part of the For Your Eyes Only collection
  • Quantum of Solace, a James Bond film named after the Ian Fleming short story, released in October 2008
  • Solace systems, a content networking company based in Kanata, Ontario, Canada that manufactures and sells content routers.

Famous quotes containing the word solace:

    “To dine!” she shrieked in dragon-wrath.
    “To swallow wines all foam and froth!
    To simper at a table-cloth!”
    Say, can thy noble spirit stoop
    To join the gormandising troop
    Who find solace in the soup?
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!
    Freedom makes man to have liking:
    Freedom all solace to man gives:
    He lives at ease that freely lives!
    John Barbour (1316?–1395)