Quotes About Comfort

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

to his cheek, and went back to the bed.

Good," Lucas said. "And hey—relax. Gonna be all right." "No, it won't," she said. "I can almost guarantee that whatever it is, it won't be all right.

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The good news is I peed before going to sleep.

Well, I miss my wife, you know, I said. But I also miss the feeling of, I don't know, comfort. The sense you're where you're supposed to be, with someone you're supposed to be with.

the cynical could afford the luxury of their cynicism because of the stability of the system they mocked.

What is it about being married you miss?" Alan asked. "Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don't know, comfort. The sense you're where you're supposed to be, with someone you're supposed to be with.

It was the 'he likes someone else and now I'm sad and want to go eat an entire pie' thing.

Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.

She knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near.

What pillow can one have like a good conscience?

My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her with envy. Her lovely body squirms a moment as though she fitted herself into a cocoon. She sighs once and at the end of it her eyes close and her lips, untroubled, fall into that wise and remote smile of the Ancient Greek gods. She smiles all night in her sleep, her breath purrs in her throat, not a snore, a kitten's purr... She loves to sleep and sleep welcomes her.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.

We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to thehumans: Success, plenty, comfort and ever-increasing leisure. No dynamic peoplehas ever survived these dangers.

You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business.They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Nobody knows why you go to a picnic to be uncomfortable when it is so easy and pleasant to eat at home.

I have always thought that perhaps formal good manners may be a cushion against heartbreak.

And always, if he had a little money, a man could get drunk. The hard edges gone, and the warmth. Then there was no loneliness, for a man could people his brain with friends, and he could find his enemies and destroy them.

In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that will come in ten years, it is the clothes that will be made very soon. If ever a people took its energy from hope, it is the Russian people.

Beans are a roof over your stomach.

The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.