Comfort Quotes

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer, though.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People like hurting each other but loving is not a waste.

~ Ai Yazawa

It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.

~ Ann M. Martin

We are called at certain moments to comfort people who are enduring some trauma. Many of us don't know how to react in such situations, but others do. In the first place, they just show up. They provide a ministry of presence. Next, they don't compare. The sensitive person understands that each person's ordeal is unique and should not be compared to anyone else's. Next, they do the practical things--making lunch, dusting the room, washing the towels. Finally, they don't try to minimize what is going on. They don't attempt to reassure with false, saccharine sentiments. They don't say that the pain is all for the best. They don't search for silver linings. They do what wise souls do in the presence of tragedy and trauma. They practice a passive activism. They don't bustle about trying to solve something that cannot be solved. The sensitive person grants the sufferer the dignity of her own process. She lets the sufferer define the meaning of what is going on. She just sits simply through the nights of pain and darkness, being practical, human, simple, and direct.

~ David Brooks

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

~ Stendhal

...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).

~ Cara Lockwood

tiny: did someone die?me: yeah, i did.he smiles again at that.tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.

~ David Levithan

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Don't pretend to comfort me, my friend. I might also pretend to not let you down.

~ Toba Beta

A meow massages the heart.

~ Stuart Mcmillan

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

~ Erich Maria Remarque

When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we were grown up, and we were free to travel the country, we could always go and find it again in Norfolk.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.

~ Beatrix Potter

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

~ L.m. Montgomery

I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead, and she was singing to her doll.

~ John Fowles

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

~ Craig Ferguson

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

~ Michael Morpurgo

When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender, of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.

~ Kenneth Grahame

It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much. I knew she could not be unmaidenly; and yet I yearned for conviction. Now I am glad!' It was a little golden thread running through the dark web of his present fortunes; which were growing ever gloomier and more gloomy.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Comfort is your biggest trap and coming out of comfort zone your biggest challenge.

~ Manoj Arora

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted.

~ Neil Gaiman

I wanted to soothe and comfort her, the way she had comforted her daughters.

~ A.b. Shepherd

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

~ Jane Austen

Never underestimate the lingering effects of a dash of spontaneous comfort.

~ Gina Greenlee

But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

~ Melina Marchetta

So what should we do with our last few days?”“I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you,” Peete replies.“Come on, then,” I say, pulling him into my room.It feels like a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again. I didn’t realize until now how starved I’ve been for human closeness. For the feel of him beside me in the darkness.

~ Suzanne Collins

Love shouldn't be comfortable.

~ Connie Brockway

I would self-medicate with fat, carbohydrates, and Jane Austen, my number one drug of choice, my constant companion through every breakup, every disappointment, every crisis. Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there in sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, till death do us part.

~ Laurie Viera Rigler

Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.

~ Timothy B. Tyson

Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.

~ K.w. Jeter

George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw feeling in Sir Stephen's suddenly dark and haunted eyes.

~ Mette Ivie Harrison

She was of traditional build herself, but her figure was largely concealed by the folds of a generously cut shift dress made out of a flecked green fabric. It was like a tent, thought Mma Ramotswe--a camouflage tent of the sort that the Botswana Defence Force might use. But I do not sit in judgement on the dresses of others, she told herself, and a tent was a practical enough garment, if that is what one felt comfortable in.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

She was dry. She was lying on something soft. She was wrapped in quilts. There was a star of light drifting above her, and a smell like a herb garden. Taggle was a long warmth stretched out at one side, his chin in her hand, his tail curled over her neck. She thought they might be in heaven.Taggle farted.Plain Kate coughed and sneezed. And then she really was awake.

~ Erin Bow

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

~ Diana Gabaldon

Her eyes were glistening, but for some reason he couldn't reach out and touch her. It was like some gestures were so simple they were beyond him.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

If he was looking for fancy embellishment, or obvious signs of wealth, he was to be disappointed. Amanda couldn't bear pretension or impracticality, and so she had chosen furniture for function rather than for style. If she bought a chair, it must be large and comfortable. If she bought a side table, it must be sturdy enough to hold a stack of books or a big lamp. She did not like gilding and porcelain disks, nor all the carving and hieroglyphics that were certainly fashionable.

~ Lisa Kleypas

As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness. -Psalm 17:15

~ God

Amalie took his hand and spread it against her heart. Her smile was utterly tranquil. 'The world changes and the world stays the same', she told him, ... 'The old moon sets. New moon rises.

~ Sharon Shinn