Quotes About Comfort

The bed is the whole of marriage.

Feeble folk are as easily reassured as they are frightened.

You should let your wife recline all day long on soft armchairs, in which she sinks into a veritable bath of eiderdown or feathers; you should encourage in every way that does no violence to your conscience, the inclination which women have to breathe no other air but the scented atmosphere of a chamber seldom opened, where daylight can scarcely enter through the soft, transparent curtains.

The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it's a kitchen, if it's a place where they make food, it's fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)

Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…" (p. 141).

For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.

When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.

There was a real sense of comfort but at the same time it felt oddly tense. The feeling that every little things we said, these conversations, at any moment, they could stop being possible, and so they were precious, it was that feeling, and the sense of the miracle of this shared moment, here and now. Why were we so far apart, even when we are together? It was anice loneliness, like th sensation of washing your face with cold water.

Could it actually be true that tears help people to heal?

Now only the kitchen and I are left. It's just a little nicer than being all alone.

Aunque sea cierto que la buena y la mala suerte existen, depender de ellas es una actitud muy cómoda.

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.

When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place. I

May the memory of this moment, here, the glowing impression of the two of us facing each other in this warm, bright place, drinking lovely hot tea, help save him, even a little bit.

This is what it means to be loved Ã¢â'¬Â¦ when someone wants to touch you, to be tender

Non c'è posto al mondo che io ami più della cucina. Non importa dove si trova, com'è fatta: purchè sia una cucina, un posto dove si fa da mangiare, io sto bene. Se possibile le preferisco funzionali e vissute. Magari con tantissimi strofinacci asciutti e puliti e le piastrelle bianche che scintillano. Anche le cucine incredibilmente sporche mi piacciono da morire.

Cuando estás en el fondo del abismo, encuentras en él un consuelo especial que no se halla en ninguna otra parte.

I silently implored: May the memory of this moment, here, the glowing impression of the two of us facing each other in this warm bright place, drinking lovely hot tea, help save him, even a little bit.

Pregai che il ricordo di questo momento in cui prendevamo un tè delizioso e bollente seduti l'uno di fronte all'altro in un posto piacevole e caldo restasse in lui come una scia luminosa e lo aiutasse. Le parole sono sempre troppo crude e finiscono con lo spegnere luci preziose e fievoli come quella.

I often think that when it comes time to die, I want to breathe my last in a kitchen.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Of all the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works. When darkness sifts from the air like fine soft soot and light spreads slowly out of the east then all but the most wretched of humankind rally.

Ghar ki murg; dal barabar.

sleeping sprawled out on the bed