Comfort Quotes

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

~ John Bunyan

Walking next to Talent, she felt the singular, cozy comfort that steals upon one who is with a good friend.

~ Kristen Callihan

As I go off into the big black abyss of my future, I have to admit that I am terrified and also a bit insecure in my decisions. But, I also realize that anyone who has ever gone off into uncharted waters must have felt similar to the way I feel now, which gives me a small ounce of comfort. I don’t know how to do what I am doing, I have no way of knowing if this is the right way or not. But I guess I’ll never know until I get there. So, this is me, being a pioneer.

~ Leigh Hershkovich

How long he stood he did not know, but there was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as an animal come from the forest, drawn by the fire. He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground. He stood a long time, listening to the warm crackle of the flames.

~ Ray Bradbury

Taylor, listen to me. I could tell you that it’s okay. That she wasn’t a wonderful person, or I didn’t love her. I could tell you that she’s happier now, and her life would’ve been sad and filled with pain and longing to see her love again. I could say that I’m not struggling with her death, as well as the death of the hope that she could once again be part of my life. But instead I’ll just say that I’m sad, too, sweetheart. That way I can spare you the struggle of detecting the lie in my words.

~ Embee

At the root of the tree at the heart of the world,With a chain round his neck, the Wolf lies curled. His gleaming teeth and jaws are furled,And the sun shall rise in the morning. His chain, it is forged of the nerve of a bear,Of the voice of a fish, and a girl's chin-hair. His chain, it is light and strong and fair,And the sun shall rise in the morning. With a mountain's root, and a cat's foot-fall,And the spit of a bird, he is held in thrall, Though iron could bind him never at all, And the sun shall rise in the morning. The sun shall rise, the stars shall fade,For the binding which the good gods madeStill loops the Wolf in its lovely braid, And the sun shall rise in the morning.

~ Maculategiraffe

The man who has many answersis often foundin the theaters of informationwhere he offers, graciously,his deep findings.While the man who has only questions,to comfort himself, makes music.

~ Mary Oliver

Let go with me. Let me comfort you with my body...there's no shame in forgetting for a night even if you know you'll remember in the morning.

~ Tiffany Reisz

By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience- if they did they would live elsewhere.

~ E.b. White

To be comforted by God is a promise that few of us ever receive, because we are consumed with controlling our situations to avoid being vulnerable.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

In my view, there are many different kinds of hugs. There are the ones you give to huggers, people who hug all the time. These, to me, are by far the least special of all hugs. I see the outstretched arms for the third time in as many days-the expectation of an embrace- and I am drawn in by a feeling of good manners rather than sincere closeness. It's like shaking hands. There are also those I hug only once in a great while because I hardly ever see then, but who I don't necessarily feel that close to. Those kinds of hugs are probably the most awkward. I'm expected to hug so I do it, even if I'm not sure I want to. Hugs like these are brief, and I am always left wondering what sort of look the other person had on their face where I couldn't see. And then there are HUGS. Like the hugs my parents give me when I'm having a bad day, any sort of hug from Armon the giant, or a hug like the one with Yipes right now. Yipes and I are not apt to embrace each other unless there's a good reason to do it, but when there is a good reason, it's a hug that feels like it ought to.

~ Patrick Carman

Each day is a new chance to improve your life, and that of your family, friends and colleagues. Be positive in your outlook, honest in your dealing and determined in your efforts. You will succeed

~ Arthur Crandon

Dream about things that envelop your being like a comfortable blanket.

~ Truth Devour

Forget the beauty, comfort, love and enjoyment. You must to be enough tough on yourself to be strong on others.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Love comforts, it is gentle, it is warm and you can feel it within your entire being.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

I wouldn't be comfortable, but at least I'd have marginal protection against pointy steel objects that went stab in the night.

~ Lisa Shearin

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

~ Doris Lessing

I work in my pajamas most of the time. No matter what you’re wearing, you can sound businesslike on the phone.

~ Juliet Blackwell

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.

~ John Lyly

Most of us lie because it is our last resort to get out of any uncomfortable situation.

~ Bria Guishard

He stretched out on the bed and was suddenly struck by how utterly lonely he was.

~ Tim Lahaye

I’m with you, it’s only me.

~ Kyra Gregory

And all I want is to hold her and make the rest of the world go away.

~ Mary E. Pearson

I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.

~ Sylvia Plath

... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.

~ Agatha Christie

Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

~ Patricia Briggs

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarreling in the greatest comfort and convenience. Oh, please, Althea, look at me. Do say yes.

~ Patrice Kindl

There are few things less comforting than a tiger who's been up too late.

~ Bill Watterson

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

~ E.f. Schumacherm

I know it's beyond what you can bear, child. You must not try to carry this alone.

~ Rosslyn Elliott

I just want to make sure Mama. Sometimes I don’t even know what I want. A lot of times I’m just tired.” Mama reached up and smoothed Liza’s curls away from her face. “Well darlin’, that’s the sign of a life being lived. I think we’re all tired when we’re giving it our best.

~ Gwenn Wright

In suiting the action to the words, however, I perceived that the stars were all wrong.That was my undoing. I had looked up unthinkingly, anticipating the familiar, and, finding it gone, began to cry like a baby. Whereupon Peter stopped the gig and took me in his arms, kissing me so that my face was soon sore both from kissing and crying.

~ Jennifer Paynter

I found I could listen without envy to Letty's singing, and afterwards when the applause came, I did not mind that Mrs Knowles was heaping praises upon her. Peter's hands were on my chair, and when I leaned back I could feel them against my shoulders.

~ Jennifer Paynter

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

~ Augusten Burroughs

Needs? I guess that is what bothers so many folks. They keep expanding their needs until they are dependent on too many things and too many other people... I wonder how many things in the average American home could be eliminated if the question were asked, Must I really have this? I guess most of the extras are chalked up to comfort or saving time.Funny thing about comfort - one man's comfort is another man's misery. Most people do't work hard enough physically anymore, and comfort is not easy to find. It is surprising how comfortable a hard bunk can be after you come down off a mountain.

~ Richard Proenneke

I've tried praying. It gives me comfort. But not as much as a cup of tea and a ginger nut biscuit.

~ Steven Herrick

I think leather pants are just better than jeans onstage; they give the performance a nice attitude, and they are also shockingly comfortable. Comfort is key.

~ Jessie Baylin

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

~ William Samuel Johnson

Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.

~ Peter Dinklage

For cool things to happen, you have to get out of your comfort zone.

~ Rony Abovitz