Quotes About Comfort

But I don't what comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.' 'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All right, then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

But I like the inconveniences. We don't, said the Controller. We prefer to do things comfortably. But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. In fact, said Mustapha Mond, you're claiming the right to be unhappy.

It must be pleasant, I should think, to hand oneself over to somebody else. It must give you a warm, splendid, comfortable feeling.

Linda was dying in company - in company and with all modern conveniences.

Ich brauche keine Bequemlichkeiten. Ich will Gott, ich will Poesie, ich will wirkliche Gefahren und Freiheit und Tugend. ich will Sünde.<< >>Kurzum<<, sagte Mustafa Mannesmann, >>Sie fordern das Recht auf Unglück.<<

But I don't want comfort; I want god, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

What I glory in is the civilized, middle way between stink and asepsis. Give me a little musk, a little intoxicating feminine exhalation, the bouquet of old wine and strawberries, a lavender bag under every pillow and potpourri in the corners of the drawing-room. Readable books, amusing conversation, civilized women, graceful art and dry vintage, music, with a quiet life and reasonable comfort?—that's all I ask for.

Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift.

Pero yo no quiero la comodidad. Yo quiero a Dios, quiero la poesía, quero el verdadero riesgo, quiero la libertad, quiero la bondad. Quiero el pecado. -En resumen, (...), usted reclama el derecho a ser desgraciado.

No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy – to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all.

Fortunate boys! No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy_to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all.

Is it any happiness, or any comfort, to consider that we are our own?

Ma io non ne voglio di comodità. Io voglio Dio, voglio la poesia, voglio il pericolo reale, voglio la libertà, voglio la bontà. Voglio il peccato.[...]Ebbene,sì. Io reclamo il diritto d'essere infelice.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. — Aldous Huxley Brave New World (Harper Perennial Modern Classics 1998) Originally published 1932.

I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.

Y entiendo también que su casa somos nosotras, que si sigue ahí aguantando es porque cree que todavía no estamos enteras sin ella y que no se irá hasta dejarnos bien, hasta que que su casa esté bien vivida. Ordenada. Hasta que haya paz.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

Home is where somebody notices your absence.

Il resto del suo tempo lo consumava in una liturgia di abitudini che riuscivano a difenderlo dall'infelicità.

Tenía consigo la indestructible calma de los hombres que se sienten en su lugar.

Rebecca non disse nulla, ma si buttò fra le braccia di Jasper Gwyn, il solo posto al mondo in cui, aveva deciso, sarebbe stato giusto piangere e non smettere per ore.

Hij had de onaantastbare rust over zich van mensen die zich op hun plaats voelen.

There is nothing worse than deluding yourself and trying to make yourself out to be somebody you're not--somebody you're not comfortable being.