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Quotes About Comfort

Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
~ Sophocles
As we remember prayer and take time to turn to the scriptures, our lives will be infinitely more blessed and our burdens will be made lighter.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.
~ Rose Macaulay
Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.
~ Linus Torvalds
But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.
~ Frank Langella
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
~ Anne Carson
How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
~ Sophocles
Sending you sincere condolences and the wish that the passing of time eases your sorrow.
~ Margaret Jones
Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.
~ Ray Bradbury
I'm the kind of person who wants the people around me to be comfortable, to laugh, and to have a fabulous time - I want them to be as happy as I am.
~ Angie Harmon
Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.
~ Roger Caras
Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.
~ Stephen King
I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow.
~ Francisco X. Alarcon
Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.
~ John Cusack
If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.
~ Anna Akhmatova
I am a comfortable sort of person when alone, and found no difficulty in passing this time profitably. Being very orderly, as you must have remarked, I have everything at hand for making myself a cup of tea at any time of day or night;
~ Anna Katharine Green
In the aftermath of death Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.
~ Anna Quindlen
It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
~ Anna Quindlen
He realized that there was a point to that ungainly empty area between the human shoulder and chin: it was the perfect place to rest an infant.
~ Anna Quindlen
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming
~ Anna Quindlen
In a world that seems so uncertain, in lives that seem sometimes to ricochet from challenge to upheaval and back again, a dog can be counted on in a way that's true of little else.
~ Anna Quindlen
Whilst I was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees, and when it was cold, we had a nice warm shed near the plantation.
~ Anna Sewell
Willie always speaks to me when he can, and treats me as his special friend. My ladies have promised that I shall never be sold, and so I have nothing to fear; and here my story ends. My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my old friends under the apple-trees.
~ Anna Sewell
I have nothing to fear and here my story ends. My troubles are all over, and I am at home.
~ Anna Sewell, Black Beauty