Quotes About Comfort

Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

She was never a tower of strength to me, but at least she was always a lodge in my garden of cucumbers.

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions—while soaking in comfortable baths or drying myself after bracing showers—in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral.

It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world, the physical world, that was once all in all to me, has at moments such as these no road through a wood, no stretch of shore, that can bring me comfort. The beauty of these things can no longer at such moments make up to me at all for the ugliness of man, his cruelty, his greed, his lying face.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

But the roaring of the fire, And the warmth of fur, And the boiling of the kettle Were beautiful to her!

Tavern" I'll keep a little tavern Below the high hill's crest, Wherein all grey-eyed people May sit them down and rest. There shall be plates a-plenty, And mugs to melt the chill Of all the grey-eyed people Who happen up the hill. There sound will sleep the traveller, And dream his journey's end, But I will rouse at midnight The falling fire to tend. Aye, 'tis a curious fancy-- But all the good I know Was taught me out of two grey eyes A long time ago.

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

Lost in Hell,-Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, "My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here.

I had discovered that I am the kind of person who cannot live comfortably, tolerably, on all-flat terrain. For the sake of inner equilibrium there has to be at least one mountain range on at least one of the four quarters of my horizon-and not more than a day's walk away.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves.

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

religion focused far more on damnation than on consolation.

Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Oh what a relief it is.

We'll leave a light on for you.

We are the people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.

The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands.

Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart.