Comfort Quotes

"When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them."

Lemony Snicket

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

Nicole Krauss

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home."

Edith Sitwell

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

James Baldwin

"She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much."

Betty Smith

"For a day, just for one day,Talk about that which disturbs no oneAnd bring some peace into yourBeautiful eyes."

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"She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted."

Cecelia Ahern

"But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two."

A.A. Milne

"I held her gaze as I held her in my arms. With all that holding I couldn’t hold on to the moment, and it slipped past me into the lonely past."

Jarod Kintz

"Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain."

Jane Austen

"Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK."

Katie Couric

"Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book."

Bill Watterson

"A tiger only needs three things to be comfortable. Lots of food, sleep, and…actually, no it’s just those two things."

Colleen Houck

"There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed."

Hubert Selby Jr.

"You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle."

Julien Smith

"Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable."

Swami Vivekananda

"Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy."

Criss Jami

"The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence."

Christopher Isherwood

"She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns."

Khaled Hosseini

"The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation."

Benjamin Disraeli

"There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the way, the truth and the life... The Holy Spirit of God is the Comforter..."

Israelmore Ayivor

"Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.' Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. 'Bright songs and the magic of hope are but a dangerous illusion. The fake comfort of witches charms."

Robert Fanney

"A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity."

Vance Havner

"God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible."

Pope Benedict XVI

"The ultimate source of comfort and peace is within ourselves."

Dalai Lama XIV

"There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable."

Criss Jami

"Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening."

William Peter Blatty

"Art is to console those who are broken by life."

Vincent van Gogh

"The beauty of having faith, is that no matter what the time of day, whether it be day or night I know that someone is always there with me to give me comfort.It doesn't matter whether it is Buddha, God or Allah because whoever it is, is special to each of us. And that is the beauty of having faith."

Anthony T. Hincks

"In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth -- only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair."

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of the trial and in the exaltation after the combat."

Padre Pio

"I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success."

Luci Shaw

"It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back."

Anthony Liccione

"I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby.'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?"

Sena Jeter Naslund, Four Spirits

"So dry your tears. Fortune has not yet turned her hatred against all your blessings. The storm has not yet broken upon you with too much violence. Your anchors are holding firm and they permit you both comfort in the present, and hope in the future."

Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

"Lifeless life is the very thing Jesus came to rescue us from."

Erin M. Straza, Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You

"I believe that life is full of tragedy. Some lives more than others. But I also believe that comfort can be found with the people that love you . . . if you're willing to let them give it."

Eliza Maxwell, The Grave Tender

"Don't give up when dark times come. The more storms you face in life, the stronger you'll be. Hold on. Your greater is coming."

Germany Kent

"we talk of plans that are going to happen.we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.there is a sort of comfort in that."

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"Heaven is a place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you."

Oliver Gaspirtz, Pet Humor!

"Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it."

William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians Volume II

"It's ironic how your comfort zone can be tiring sometimes."

Ahmed Mostafa

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

Eric Temple Bell

"For it is up to you and meto take solacein nostalgia's armsand our abilityto create the everlastingfrom fleeting moments."

Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

"There is such a shelter in each other."

Nick Laird

"Foggy nights bring some comfort.He can get lost in the mistand there is no one to stare or question."

Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

"We need to retrain our brains, our hearts, and our wills to seek a comfort that truly satisfies."

Erin M. Straza, Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You

"By extending love and comfort to the broken places around us, we keep watch with Jesus in his sorrow."

Erin M. Straza, Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You

"What if our common sense has been negatively influenced by our addiction to comfort?"

Erin M. Straza, Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You

"The abundant life Jesus spoke of isn't opposed to the material, but it consists of more than just the material."

Erin M. Straza, Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You

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