Quotes About Comfort

Ice cream is just a Band-Aid. Pain is still there when you wake up.

We find comfort in routine and in the warmth of our own living rooms.

it´s just...today has really sucked, and when you´re around stuff doesn´t seem so crappy - Will

I'll always remember taking your hand and telling you that everything would be okay.

She is so relieved to know that he's better and is finally getting the sleep he needs and she misses him.

Moon, moon, rise in the sky to be a reminder of comfort and the hour when I was brave.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

At the end of the day, he said, "I will take care of you," his voice thick with emotion. She stood before him and nodded. He zipped her coat for her.

Watching her, I felt she was telling the truth. There was something about her that seemed deeply—almost fundamentally—comfortable inside herself, the way I think a person is when they have been loved by their parents.

To deny my husband any chance of comforting me—oh, it was an unspeakably awful thing. And I had not known. This is the way of life: the many things we do not know until it is too late.

Speaking of this, he felt something had been returned to him, as though the inestimable losses of life had been lifted like a boulder, and beneath he saw - under the attentive gaze of Daisy's blue eyes - the comforts and sweetness of what had once been.

thought to myself: William is the only person I ever felt safe with. He is the only home I ever had.

He thought of all the people in the world who felt they'd been saved by a city. He was one of them. Whatever darkness leaked its way in, there were always lights on in different windows here, each light like a gentle touch on his shoulder saying, Whatever is happening, Bob Burgess, you are never alone.

When other helpers fail and comforts flee . . . O Lord, abide with me.

God, I'm scared,' he said, quietly. She almost said, 'Oh, stop. I hate scared people.

told me my presence is what he found to be the greatest comfort and so he would fall back to sleep.

way that was comfortable. Her house had been

Bonnie was the central heating of his life." pg. 83

You learn to, when you don't feel safe. You can always take a catnap sitting up.

William is the only person I ever felt safe with. He is the only home I ever had.

At David's service in a funeral home in the city—which was then, and is now, all a blur to me—I do remember Becka whispering to me, "Dad wishes he could sit up here with us." "He said that to you?" I asked, turning to look at her, and she nodded solemnly. Poor William, I thought.

I would sometimes sit in our small bedroom and weep with a kind of horrendous inner pain, and William would come to me and say, "Lucy, talk to me, what is it?" And I would just shake my head until he went away. What a really awful thing I had done. I had not thought of this until now. To deny my husband any chance of comforting me—oh, it was an unspeakably awful thing. And I had not known. This is the way of life: the many things we do not know until it is too late.

believing that in the presence of this person we are safe.

Mommy, I cried inside myself, Mommy, I am so frightened! And the nice mother I have made up over the years answered: Yes, I know.