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Quotes About Comfort

Whether we are filled with joy or grief, our angels are close to us, speaking to our hearts of God's love.
~ Eileen Elias Freeman
The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God.
~ Eileen Elias Freeman
Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe.
~ Eileen Elias Freeman
Max had never been pure and shining, enthroned on an altar in her heart, an icon. No, he was something that was lived in. Like a house full of nicks and jumble and worn chair arms, and more wonderful than any immaculate palace.
~ Eileen Goudge
I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere.
~ Eileen Myles
You know how you're always half hungry while in bed. Well this was like sleeping with a meal, a big fried meal, you have your arms around it.
~ Eileen Myles
Too tall, standing up. In bed he was very much the right size.
~ Eileen Wilks
Nice doggie.
~ Eileen Wilks
This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.
~ Eileen Wilks
Everything is okay. These will be very merry noodles.
~ Eireann Corrigan
Silk--that's what I want rubbing against me. I feel so woolen all the time.
~ Elaine Dundy
If the relationship has been a source of comfort, it also deserves your seeing that it continue to be a source of satisfying self-expansion.
~ Elaine N. Aron
repeating helps people get over sorrow. Otherwise the words build up in you, a lamentation, and you can't stop grieving.
~ Elana Dykewomon
To escape criticism — do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
~ Elbert Hubbard
And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.
~ Eleanor Cameron
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
~ Eleanor Robson Belmont
On Sundays when Bubby cooked dairy, she would sometimes have a request for scrambled eggs. She beat them with her indispensable broken fork until bubbles formed on top, then added a dash of sweet cream and several chunks of cream cheese. She cooked the eggs over a low flame, stirring constantly. The result was a mountain of fluff, creamy, smooth and delectable enough to tempt us.
~ Eleanor Widmer
I know—it stayed in her head without becoming sound—I know what a comfortable life full of good intentions means, you can't even imagine what real misery is.
~ Elena Ferrante
Watch me until I fall asleep. Watch me always even when you leave Naples. That way I'll know that you see me and I'm at peace.
~ Elena Ferrante
En los países con cierto bienestar ha predominado una medianía que oculta los horrores del resto del mundo. Cuando de esos horrores se desprende una violencia que llega hasta el interior de nuestras ciudades y nuestras costumbres nos sobresaltamos, nos alarmamos.
~ Elena Ferrante
It's relaxing, I thought, I was wrong not to come sooner. I had a friend of my age with her own house, full of opulent, orderly things. That
~ Elena Ferrante
But her husband was sleeping, he had fallen asleep as if wrapped in a magic cape.
~ Elena Ferrante
I don't want my mother to die worrying about her sons." "Comfort her." "How." She smiled. "With lies. Lies are better than tranquilizers.
~ Elena Ferrante
Foi o primeiro em absoluto a me mostrar, na prática, como é confortável chegar a um ambiente entranho, potencialmente hostil, e descobrir que você foi precedida de uma boa fama, que não precisa fazer nada para ser aceita, que seu nome já é conhecido, que já se sabe bastante sobre você, que são os outros, os estranhos, que devem se esforçar para caírem em suas graças, e não você na deles.
~ Elena Ferrante