Comfort Quotes

What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble ...

You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you...

The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim l...

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will ...

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could...

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...

We are called at certain moments to comfort people who are enduring some trauma. Many of us don't kn...

I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.

When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made...

I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability...

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability...

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it ...

That's the best thing I can think of. Having a good hold on your arse always makes me feel steady.

When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.

So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook?Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of c...

The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be he...

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragem...

By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorke...

Travel was a species of warfare.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a...

Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.

It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is c...

A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with yo...

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled aga...

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic ...

The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be careful...

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determin...

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, ...

Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hu...

Winston stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that he was reading, in comfort and...

Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.

Teaching is no joke, sonny! ... Comforting truths, they call it! Truth is meant to save you first, a...

Believe in God our Eternal Father, He who is greatest of all, who stands ever ready to help us and w...

But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that on...

He had performed this ritual before, getting into trouble and then coming to his mother, uneasy and ...

The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based ...

This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in ...

Oh yes", said the old woman, "but I've heard these so-called stoves are by no means all they are sup...

I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was s...

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

it is an ocean of burning oil I am cast adrift upon, no sea’s repose; I pass from waking agonies… to...

there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort come...

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. ...

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of fami...

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

If one starts to draw comparisons between what is and what is not, it is the poorer qualities of the...

Like infants, when they are born into the world, God's children are not born again in the full posse...

Bed rest and a large steaming mug of hot chocolate. I always find that cheers me up.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had fe...

Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was wil...

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas...

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has give...

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us...

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables wh...

Is there any place on earth that smells better than a Laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you ...

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked process...

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a...

Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the con...

I joy, that in these straits I see my west;

Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don’t know, comfort. The...

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best,...

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to ex...

I just don’t understand how you can get so much comfort from a religion whose language does so much ...

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfo...

When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn...

You see, because [Norfolk is] stuck out here on the east, on this hump jutting into the sea, it's no...

When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on...

She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she se...

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighten...

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you b...

All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.

There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool ...

He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even t...

We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a ...

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you...

But even the longest day wears to sunset.

The man who has many answersis often foundin the theaters of informationwhere he offers, graciously,...

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless...

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...

He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the wind...

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free...

Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.

I continue to stare, my eyes missing nothing, remembering the moments we just shared together. But i...

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who p...

The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s ...

I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and ...

The sexiest thing about men is how they are with kids... If they are great with kids they are real m...

I slept and I woke. She gave me a ring made from a leaf, a cluster of golden berries, a flower that ...

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...