Quotes About Comfort

most people want to play it safe and feel secure. So passion does not direct them. Fear does.

You already know the end result… laid off, fired, no retirement, no benefits, no security and certainly no comfort.

To me, that is too high a price to pay for a little bit of security.

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.

the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.

I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

Home and I are such good friends.

Well, that is another hope gone. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I'm disappointed in anything.

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

Velvet carpet, sighed Anne luxuriously, and silk curtains! I've dreamed of such things, Diana. But do you know I don't believe I feel very comfortable with them after all. There are so many things in this room and all so splendid that there is no scope for imagination. That is one consolation when you are poor--there are so many more things you can imagine about.

The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But while there was life there was fear.

Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to.

Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too.

I don't know whether it is any use forgiving people or not. Yes, it is, it makes you feel more comfortable yourself.

It's lovely to be going home and know it's home. I love green gables already, and I've never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I'm so happy.

It's lovely to be going home and know it's home.