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Quotes About Comfort

Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.
~ Euripides
Give me your hand; I'll hold you....Then wipe off on me all your uncleanness, all; I do not shrink from it.
~ Euripides
When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.
~ Eva Ibbotson
He's my buddy," she said, then patted my hand. "And he's faithful." Patsy opened the door to her home and shuffled in. "Like the Lord.
~ Eva Marie Everson
Happiness can be frightening when one is not accustomed to the sensation.
~ Eva Rice
It's okay, sweetheart," he said, smoothing his hand over her forehead. "I'll hold up the world for a while so you can rest. Don't worry; just sleep. I've got this.
~ Evelyn Adams
it's a great thing in life to have a place you can't be moved from - too few of them
~ Evelyn Waugh
a sigh fit for the pillow, the sinking firelight, and a bedroom window open to the stars and the whisper of bare trees.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Every attendance at Mass leaves me without comfort or edification. I shall never, pray God, apostatize but church-going is now a bitter trial.
~ Evelyn Waugh
adore having you. It's only Ian; he was saying tonight he wondered if you wouldn't feel more comfortable if you paid something…
~ Evelyn Waugh
Here it seemed some of them slept for there were divan beds covered with blankets only and a large, much undenticulated, comb.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I must visualize the scene, Apthorpe. When we are old men, memories of things like this will be our chief comfort.
~ Evelyn Waugh
How good it is to sit in the shade and talk of love
~ Evelyn Waugh
I'm tres old and tres bored, Tom, said Amory one day, stretching himself at ease in the comfortable window-seat. He always felt most natural in a recumbent position.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
Her breasts, although not large, jutted out shamelessly under the soft, warm, heavy fabric, free of the tight undergarments that imprisoned them during the day.
~ F. Paul Wilson
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dick walked beside her, feeling her unhappiness, and wanting to drink the rain that touched her cheek.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
She told him in a dozen ways, of which the best was without words, how she had missed him. Her emotion reassured him, promised his anxious heart that everything would be all right.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The feel of her head against his shoulder, of her familiar body, sent a shock of emotion over him. His arms holding her had a tendency to tighten around her.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald