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Quotes About Comfort

Death loves death, not life. Dying people love to know that others die with them. It is a comfort to learn you are not alone in the kiln, in the grave.
~ Ray Bradbury
Aha! Mine all mine. My life savings. Look at all that snow there. Very comforting. I've got enough here to buy everything I want in the world, but I'm not going to because I'd sooner have the money.
~ Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please This also became Conrad's epitaph.
~ Joseph Conrad
I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.
~ Joseph Conrad
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury
~ Joseph Conrad
It is only when our appointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception.
~ Joseph Conrad
Thither went afterwards the Chosen Vessel, To bring back comfort thence unto that Faith, Which of salvation's way is the beginning.
~ Joseph Conrad
Give them all of my dear love and a kiss. Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times.
~ Joseph Conrad
Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.
~ Joseph Conrad
I'm cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I'm cold.' 'You're going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You're going to be all right.' 'I'm cold,' Snowden said again in a frail, childlike voice. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there,' Yossarian said, because he did not know what else to say. 'There, there.' 'I'm cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there. There, there.
~ Joseph Heller
What can you tell your children today that will not leave them frightened and sad?
~ Joseph Heller
Mrs. Daneeka, Doc Daneeka's wife, was not glad that Doc Daneeka was gone and split the peaceful Staten Island night with woeful shrieks of lamentation when she learned by War Department telegram that her husband had been killed in action. Women came to comfort her, and their husbands paid condolence calls and hoped inwardly that she would soon move to another neighborhood and spare them the obligation of continuous sympathy.
~ Joseph Heller
peace, solace, and Divine rest for your soul.
~ Joseph Murphy
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying; neither, shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Behold I make all things new.
~ Joseph Murphy
Any method or process that alleviates human misery, pain, and distress is good. Many churches practice the laying on of hands; others make novenas and visit shrines; all are benefitted according to their mental acceptance or belief.
~ Joseph Murphy
Milarepa was. "He's the Buddhist meditation master who lives in those mountains. He has tamed his mind, so he is always comfortable. He knows his own nature, so he doesn't need confirmation from others. He is completely content with whatever he has, so he never needs anything. That makes him the richest man in the world.
~ Joseph Parent
Your copy has to put the prospect into a relaxed buying environment.
~ Joseph Sugarman
Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.
~ Josh Groban
How true it is that 'God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,' or in other words, that He renders the worst of human conditions tolerable, while He permits the best, to be nothing better than tolerable.
~ Joshua Wolf Shenk
Don't forget: hold somebody's hand through the dark.
~ Joy Harjo
We are beasts and this is our consolation.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Only where there is life can there be home.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Relief is happiness for those who, otherwise, would have no happiness.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
But you are a solace just by existing, vividly in my thoughts if not here before me.
~ Joyce Carol Oates