Quotes About Comfort

To a righteous man, death is like a night sleep. He suffer no where else.

You can't be the one that hurts and the one that comforts.

There is no safety that does not also restrict us. And many needless restrictions feel safe and comfortable. It is so hard to know, at any moment, the distinction between being safe and being caged. It is hard to know when it is better to choose freedom and fear, and when it is simply foolhardy. I have often, I think, too often erred on the side of caution.

There's a sort of constant ease, as if it's high summer all the time inside her.

How quickly people forget the taste of freedom, swapping it for this easy comfortable thing they call peace. Sleep is peaceful. Death is peaceful. Freedom is life and wakefulness.

Simple feels safe. Certainty feels safe.

Mark said to me once, "She's like God to you: she inexplicably calms inexplicable fears.

Marriage is only permitted between those who have little in common. One may not marry a close relative. One may not marry a person of the same sex. God, Who created the heavens and the earth, might easily have ordained that a brother and sister could marry, that two women together could produce offspring. He could have so ordered the world that those who were the closest were able to mate. And thus He might have given His creations more comfort. Why, therefore, did He not do so?

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

There was a terrible pain in his voice; it reminded Halla of a wound hurt; she wanted suddenly to lick the hurt place with a soft warm, bear's tongue, to lick it clean and into a shape of healing. But there was no wound on him that could be seen, nothing she could do but lay a hand on his shoulder, uncertainly.

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.

I leaned against his side, his irritation oddly comforting. After a moment he grudgingly put his arm around me. The deep quiet was already settling back upon the grove, as if all the fire and rage we'd brought could make only a brief interruption in its peace.

The only cure for grief, someone had once told her, was love.

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages..

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

Don't fear, I am with you.

I know you're lonely, Mama," he whispers, his voice half-choked with sleep. "And sometimes… so am I.

It was beyond him to resign himself to some simple, cynical generality about life. Had he been able to do so, he would have been more comfortable. But because he could not, the heaviness in his heart persisted.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

You are safe, loved and divine beautiful soul.

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

I didn't want to die. I just found death soothing to think about.