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Quotes About Comfort

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.
~ Leo Tolstoy
When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.
~ Lord Chesterfield
We are so sorry to hear the sad news. He(She) will be Always in our thoughts, Forever in our prayers Eternally in our memories
~ Margaret Jones
When you need someone To talk to Or just to be with you Remember there is someone close by That someone is me
~ Margaret Jones
To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.
~ Rebecca West
All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.
~ Robert Anderson
When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
~ Langston Hughes
To the rich, the really poor don't know that the level of comfort you experience exist at all, so you see, they don't need your sympathy, and you should not feel guilty, just teach them how to fish.
~ Peter Ojo
I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.
~ Erica Brown
Why the anchor?""Because sometimes, it's nice to feel like there's someone who can save you.
~ L.J. Shen, Defy
Een vreemde die geen vreemde meer is, begint de geliefde meteen te benauwen. - Amos Oz
~ Amos Oz
What does the pale ring around the moon portend? Usually it heralds a khamsin. Tomorrow, no doubt, the heat will return. It is May, and June will follow. A wind drifts among the cypresses in the night, trying to comfort them between one heat wave and the next. It is the way of the wind to come and to go and to come again. There is nothing new.
~ Amos Oz
My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their future. For the most part, I trust them to make the right choices for themselves. I always look forward to seeing them, and I love just watching them sleep. What a great relationship.
~ Amy Chua
The women advised long walks. They told the wife to watch the sun rise and set, to look for solace in the natural world, though they admitted there was no comfort to be found in the world and they would all be fools to expect it.
~ Amy Hempel
For peace of mind I will lie about any thing at any time.
~ Amy Hempel
If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.
~ Amy Tan
Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds.
~ Amy Tan
The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.
~ Amy Tan
Maybe the kind of love that would comfort me did not exist. Perhaps I expected too much of love and no one existed who could ever meet my unceasing and bottomless need for it.
~ Amy Tan
Pero yo estaba muy mimada por su culpa. Nunca me había enseñado a tener en cuenta sus sentimientos y por ello el ama sólo era para mí alguien que me ofrecía comodidad, como un ventilador en verano o una estufa en invierno, una bendición que sólo aprecias y quieres cuando ya no está presente.
~ Amy Tan
you must work toward the Four Necessities: jewelry, furniture, a seasonal contract with a stipend, and a comfortable retirement.
~ Amy Tan
the living death of safety and stagnation.
~ Amy Tan
Could you wrap your arms around me to keep me warm?
~ Amy Tan
Hugging and being hugged by everybody in moments of sadness and triumph, because hugging is something that never came naturally to me, and now it does.
~ Amy Tan