Quotes About Comfort

But the child just lay against her, hoping to stay where she was, hoping the rain wouldn't end. Doll may have been the loneliest woman in the world, and she was the loneliest child, and there they were, the two of them together, keeping each other warm in the rain

At a certain level housekeeping is a regime of small kindnesses, which, taken together, make the world salubrious, savory, and warm.

Softly, reassuringly, he comforted his friend, as they waited for death together. As if the Don could truly snatch the life of Genco Abbandando back from that most foul and criminal traitor to man.

I shall feel safer when we are through Knightsbridge.

It was always surprising to me how ferociously the public mourned a beautiful stranger -- especially one from a famous family. Into that empty form they could unload the grief and regret of their own lives, be rid of it, feel lucky and light for a few days, comforted by the though, At least it wasn't me.

Into that empty form they could unload the grief and regret of their own lives, be rid of it, feel lucky and light for a few days, comforted by the thought, At least that wasn't me.

I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.

I wanted to die. Where were my parents to take me in their arms, to reassure me?

Cigarettes are food for the soul

When I went back to her room she was crying. We were not in the same social class but at least we were in the same bed.

Where was my mother to stroke my hair? Where was my grandmother to tell me that lovers, I would have them by the dozen? Where was my father to punish this boy who dared hurt his daughter? Where?

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

The gospel is never about seeking our own comfort, and it always drives the local church out to do more for God in the world.

A better time. A simpler time,' said the Doctor. 'That's what we all yearn for. The pain of wanting to belong somewhere. To go home.

You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside.

She idly stroked his head in the way one might stroke a dog.

And then, after a while, she said, 'Christopher, let me hold your hand. Just for once. Just for me. Will you? I won't hold it hard.

When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.

You see, the attorney Giuliani said, not only is there no comfort in unanimity, but they cannot even achieve it. I could unify them. That's silly, Alessandro. If they supported you, or even listened, it would be because you flattened yourself and your ideas until everything that once was steep and noble was gone.

The things that frighten us just want to be held.

Truly, the most we can ask of others is for their guidance and comfort on the way—without imposition, design, or thought of reward. This is the hospitality of relationship: for family to help us manifest who we are in the world, for friends to bring us to thresholds of realness, for loved ones to encourage us to cross barriers of our own making into moments of full aliveness.

We cannot eliminate hunger, but we can feed each other. We cannot eliminate loneliness, but we can hold each other. We cannot eliminate pain, but we can live a life of compassion.

After a child's worst day, he or she still looks completely beautiful and innocent in sleep

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.