Quotes About Comfort

Si chinò per accarezzarmi. Fece scorrere la mano lungo la schiena e poi sotto al mento. «Ogni cane dovrebbe iniziare la giornata con una bella grattatina sotto il mento» dichiarò. Spostò la mano sopra la testa. «Posso accarezzarti qui?» mi chiese. «Sulla testa? So che non piace a tutti i cani». Rimasi immobile, e chiusi gli occhi. «Socchiudi gli occhi!» esclamò Susan. «Ottimo segno».

I want to have those little hot dogs wrapped in biscuit dough.

I was feeling fine without it.

didn't like Mr. Nicholls, it wasn't as if he were doing anything illegal. And when I told them that I wouldn't want Joey and Nate to feel as if I'd abandoned them, we agreed that I should continue sitting for them as long as I didn't feel too uncomfortable around Mr. Nicholls.

And having said that, I got up and stalked off to the school library, where I went looking for Little Women. It's one of my favorite books, and I thought that reading some familiar passages might be comforting.

a nice dress could never be as comfortable as jeans.

The search for comfort at the expense of truth has never been a motive for religious belief, since all creeds are chock-full of terrible proposals, which are no more comfort to anyone and which the faithful believe despite the pain it causes them, for fear of leaving some dark corner of reality unacknowledged.

She keeps coming over to my table and asking me if everything's all right, as though I might be able to reassure her that the world is not coming to an end. "Yes," I tell her. "Everything's fine. It's just history running its course." She smiles sweetly and flees.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

God direct you according to them, and comfort you! All my fear was (and that more particularly for some of the last past months) that I should have been the mournful survivor. In a very few moments all my sufferings will be over; and God give you, when you come to this unavoidable period of all human vanity, the same happy prospects that are now opening to me! O Sir, believe me, all worldly joys are now nothing; less than nothing:

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, That slid into my soul.

EPITAPH ON AN INFANT Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade,   Death came with friendly care: The opening Bud to Heaven convey'd,   And bade it blossom there.

If I could have you after every nightmare, I'd have ten a night.

You don't have to give me flowers, Coburn. You don't even have to hold me. Let me hold you. - Honor Gillette

His arms closed around them. While the storm raged outside,he held them protectively. Anna buried her face in one side of his neck,David in the other. His hands cupped the backs of their heads,pressing them closer.Things were hurled against the cellar door with such impetus that David's small fist gripped a handful of his shirt. And he knew that this was what mattered. They mattered. He mattered to them. All the rest of it all the rest of it evaporated into insignificance..

She crumpled into the chair behind the desk and, bending slightly from the waist, hugged her elbows.

Because I liked having your head in my lap too much. Remember that?" "No.

Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

Money solves nothing but it eases everything.

I'm sure love would cure him. He needs someone to love him and look after him.' 'We all need that

Lo común es que la literatura provenga del lado de las víctimas, pues el escritor, agazapado, se siente más cómodo donde caen las bombas que al lado de los cañones

Los muertos no te engañan, ni te desilusionan. Sólo comparten su paz contigo.

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.