Quotes About Comfort

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

Candy took the bathing suit from her and used the suit to wipe the tears from Rose Rose's face. You're fine, you're just fine, Candy said to the girl. And you're going to feel better. No one's going to hurt you.

Am I not here, for I am your mother?

Clara Swift is asleep, her head on the cowboy's saddle; the cowboy sleeps with his head in Clara's lap, his Stetson on his stomach.

I guess that's just one of the reasons it's the most beautiful bar in the world, in my opinion: it has the grace to make no one feel self-conscious about any unhappiness.

One thing you learn as you get older: the secret to a happy work life is finding a desk chair you can live with.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Time, that aged nurse, rocked me to patience.

There is a comfort in throwing oneself on the charity of ones friends — 't is like the albatross sleeping on its wings.

I've gained pounds lying continuously in bed, seeking surcease and sublimation in food.

I could never agree with either of them. It would have been comfortable, but I could not believe it. Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

Whatever gets you through the night

Self-interest would become comfort and then affinity. Transparency, for this reason, was vital: "We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing." Athenians found "the fruits of other countries" to be "as familiar a luxury as those of [their] own." The walls made their citizenship global.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

Kummerspeck ("grief bacon") is German for the weight put on from eating too much when feeling sorry for yourself.

What could help, more than doctors, were nurses. Nursing could ease the strains on a patient, keep a patient hydrated, resting, calm, provide the best nutrition, cool the intense fevers. Nursing could give a victim of the disease the best possible chance to survive. Nursing could save lives.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

I like to think of Doritos as emotional packing material to safeguard the feelings I've swallowed.

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us.