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Quotes About Comfort

We are to think (of the dead) that they pass into a better place and a happier condition.
~ Edith Hamilton
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
~ Edith Sitwell
I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.
~ Edith Wharton
I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.
~ Edith Wharton
Even women have been known to enjoy the privileges of a flat.
~ Edith Wharton
I want our life to be like a house with all the windows lit.
~ Edith Wharton
as usual, kept the fire alive and the lamp trimmed; and the room, with its rows and rows of books
~ Edith Wharton
The only way I can help you is by loving you,' Selden said in a low voice.
~ Edith Wharton
Hale sat with his feet up on the stove, his back propped against a battered desk strewn with papers: the place, like the man, was warm, genial and untidy.
~ Edith Wharton
Hold me, Gerty, hold me, or I shall think of things.
~ Edith Wharton
To a torn heart uncomforted by human nearness a room may open almost human arms, and the being to whom no four walls mean more than any others, is, at such hours, expatriate everywhere.
~ Edith Wharton
Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury; it was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.
~ Edith Wharton
Ethan, there's something wrong! I knew there was!" She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.
~ Edith Wharton
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
~ Edith Wharton
Her books, and some inner source of life, had kept her warm.
~ Edith Wharton
decorate one's inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone
~ Edith Wharton
Prin liniÈ™tea ei, din care lipsea orice nuan?? de surpriz?, prin simplitatea ei, izbutea s? înl?ture orice convenÈ›ie, f?cându-l s? înÈ›eleag? cât de firesc era, pentru doi vechi prieteni care aveau s?-È™i spun? atâtea, s? caute s? fie singuri.
~ Edith Wharton
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
~ Edmund Spenser
There did I finde mine onely faithfull frend In heauy plight and sad perplexitie; Whereof I sorie, yet my selfe did bend, Him to recomfort with my companie.
~ Edmund Spenser
There is no greater pleasure than to lie between clean sheets, listen to music, and read under a strong light.
~ Edmund White
It's a mild hell so comfortable that it resembles heaven.
~ Edmund White
four of us slept in the one bed, two at the bottom and two at the top. All of us tossed and turned and raved in our sleep.
~ Edna O'Brien
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition
~ Edward Gibbon
At last, giving me the boat's sail for a bed, he stretched himself out on the jagged rocks, and slept soundly as the unsanctified in a comfortable pew of a church; --I wish the benches were softer, and the cushions higher, as then more people might be tempted to take a nap; it is my only reason for never going.
~ Edward John Trelawny