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Quotes About Comfort

Sometimes all we need to soothe our soul and ease our burdens is the loving hand of a friend gently touching our heart and lifting us towards love
~ Mimi Novic
I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.
~ Adeline Knapp
a pockmarked boy with a scraggy ponytail and four tiny rings in his right ear leaned against the wall of the armory, holding his dog on a leash, a sign hanging from his neck: PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PET MY DOG. IT MAY MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER.
~ Jay McInerney
For me, religion comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable.
~ Jay Michaelson
Sorrow never heals. We simply take comfort in the fact that our pain seems to fade.
~ Jay Rubin
Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
~ Jean Cocteau
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
~ Jean Cocteau
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
~ Jean Cocteau
Ed said, "I can tell you, when we heard that baby was going to be all right, there wasn't a dry seat in the castle." "I'm so happy to hear that," Marigold sold. "I think.
~ Jean Ferris
In the next few minutes, both of them sensed the false cheerfulness that came from trying to reassure the other in the face of real doubts. But they each were still glad they ahd someone to be falsely cheerful for.
~ Jean Ferris
pliée dans un grand châle qui lui couvrait la tête et la poitrine et qu'elle tenait serré sur elle en croisant les bras.
~ Jean Giono
She knew that she had brought him the very safety and sense of belonging that was so important for a child, but which he had never experienced in his family of origin.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
The house, despite its eerie absence of absent things, was not a comfortable place, and there was nothing compelling her to be here.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
It came to me then that I could take comfort in knowing my father and my mother were dead, that death's mystery had already embraced them. They had gone on ahead, had broken the trail, and because of that, death seemed a little cozier, a little safer, a little less terrifying. Because my parents were already there - in death - I saw I could afford to enjoy the sunlight for as long as I possibly could. Sitting beside my father's grave, I was glad - and proud - to be alive.
~ Jean Hegland
Wanting to feel safe all of the time can also lead to wanting to protect against emotional upset—the concern with "emotional safety" somewhat unique to iGen. That can include preventing bad experiences, sidestepping situations that might be uncomfortable, and avoiding people with ideas different from your own. That's where things get dicey—both for iGen and for the older generations struggling to understand them.
~ Jean M. Twenge
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
~ Jean Paul Richter
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
~ Jean Paul Richter
People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.
~ Jean Plaidy
What a good thing it is to have in this world one person of whom who need not cherish the smallest fear!
~ Jean Plaidy
A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.
~ Jean Rhys
A cat is a peerless poultice.
~ Jean Stafford
staying safely in the ivory tower is much more comfortable for academics,
~ Jean Tirole
I sometimes long to pat him on the head and tell him to cheer up; the world's full of sunshine, and some of it's for him.
~ Jean Webster