Quotes About Comfort

Jack's house was crayon art and blaring cartoons and the smell of casserole. Ethan

they had an unselfconscious comfort that normally required long intimacy. Maybe it was because he'd been thinking about her all month, waiting for her to appear, and the anticipation had been akin to actually being together.

Home is not something you find outside yourself; home is something you carry inside you, and it's made of memories of the people you love, and the people who have loved you.

A home without books is a body without soul.

What is more agreeable than one's home?

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

There is no place more delightful than home.

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.

Robots would save the elderly from the woes of the ageing flesh.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

Doris is very religious. She says it is a comfort. Her minister is plump and pink, and if he met John the Baptist in tatters in the desert, stuffing dead locusts into that parched mouth for food, and blazing the New Kingdom out of those terrible eyesockets, he would faint. But so would I, likely.

Eravamo abituati uno sguardo così, l'uno accanto all'altra in silenzio, non ci dispiaceva.

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husband's feet,' he enlightened humorously, seemingly not at all averse to her obvious desire to be comforted.

these books are my good friends

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.

Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".

If only the peace I feel right now could be stored up and released later when cruelty surrounds me in the dark during nightmares.

Books become my refuge. Reading keeps me hopeful. I fall in love with small poems, the shorter the better- haiku from Japan, and tiny rhymes by Emily Dickinson.

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.