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Quotes About Comfort

Turn up the lights—I don't want to go home in the dark.
~ O. Henry
?yi, iyi; bunlar?n hepsini Hüsamettin Albay?ma söylerim. Mezar ta??ma yazd?ramam ya bu kadar ?eyi. Söyle evlad?m, diye teselli ederdi annem beni.Söyle de içine hicran olmas?n.Hicran oldu anne.
~ Unknown
I hate it when people tell me how I am doing. Why are you here I aasked. Nice to see you too he smiled. I brought you something. He handed me the small stuffed koala. I thought it might keep you company. Thanks I said embarrassed. I can't wait to introduce him to all my other stuffed animals at home.
~ Obert Skye
I did not know what she suffered from, but I knew that her malady must have been horrible; I knew that from the way she used to embrace me.
~ Octave Mirbeau
There was no real comfort in being alone with her thoughts, her memories, but somehow the illusion of freedom lessened her despair.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell?
~ Octavia E. Butler
Praying makes people feel better even when there's no action they can take," he said. "I used to think that was all God was good for—to help people like my mother stand what they had to stand.
~ Octavia E. Butler
God is Change, and in the end, God prevails. But there's hope in understanding the nature of God—not punishing or jealous, but infinitely malleable. There's comfort in realizing that everyone and everything yields to God. There's power in knowing that God can be focused, diverted, shaped by anyone at all. But there's no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you. You know that.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The bed was what it had always been: a solid platform that gave slightly to the touch and that seemed to grow from the floor.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Taking care of other people can be a good cure for nightmares like yours and maybe hers.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Everything is so soft here,' he said, 'so easy...' 'I know
~ Octavia E. Butler
She was too bright to take anything but the most superficial comfort from her denial. But even superficial comfort is better than none, I guess.
~ Octavia E. Butler
One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.
~ Odell Shepard
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
~ Ogden Nash
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
~ Ogden Nash
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
~ Okakura Kakuzo
What a joy it is in life when you happen to have a clean, warm kitchen.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
There's a couple—she is nestled up into his chest, eyes closed, like she's trying to top off an interrupted night's sleep.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Podnios?am ko?dr? i zaprosi?am go do siebie, ale poniewa? nie jestem Czu?ostkowa ani Sentymentalna, nie b?d? si? dalej nad tym rozwodzi?.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Everything in here was clean and bright, warm and cosy. What a joy it is in life when you happen to have a clean, warm kitchen.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Surprising how well you can sleep on an old Morris chair if you work hard daytimes, or even on the floor if you get cramped. It's all a matter of getting used to it.
~ Unknown
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.
~ Olive Schreiner
Now, therefore, I began to associate with none but disappointed authors like myself, who praised, deplored, and despised each other. The satisfaction we found in every celebrated writer's attempts was inversely as their merits. My unfortunate paradoxes had entirely dried up that source of comfort. I could neither read nor write with satisfaction; for excellence in another was my aversion, and writing was my trade.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.
~ Oliver Goldsmith