Quotes About Comfort

This is it, I thought. This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.

Los ciudadanos pueden volverse entonces indiferentes a la verdad y optar por la comodidad de un grupo de iguales en el que aislarse y en el que repetirse falsedades unos a otros. Puede que comiencen a temer dar su opinión y prefieran el consuelo de un líder que les proporcione una sensación de protección como la del interior del seno materno. Y puede que se vuelvan agresivos unos con otros y que se culpen del dolor del miedo.

It was the sort of room that made you want to stand around in it and read for the rest of your life

Maud (like my mother) thought food did a lot more than just fill you up.

Just hold me, sit with me, put your arm around me. Listen as I struggle to tell you what it feels like, without thinking you have to tie it all up in some cohesive clinical bundle. I don't expect you to make this better. I know you can't.

He throws a quick arm around me and quotes a line we've always loved from The New Hampshire Hotel, Keep passing the open windows.

Given good yarn, good workmanship, and good care, a knitted shawl and outlive its knitter, providing warmth and pleasure to several generations of family and friends.

God loves you.-Monica, Touched By An Angel

God has many names, you know. Jehovah, Almighty, Everlasting Father, Alpha and Omega . . . But do you know what He calls Himself? I Am. Ask God who He is, and that is what He'll tell you. I Am. Not I was or I'm going to be. But I am. I am here for you now because that's where you need Me. And if God is here, right here, right now, what is there to fear?

there in the night their bed had the towelly smell of marriage.

Kingsley used to tell the following anecdote about sibling rivalry – how he found me, when I was four or five, lying on the stairs in an ecstasy of grief, how he worriedly knelt at my side and, after several minutes, managed to quell my hiccuppy gaspings, my heaving chest. Then he said, 'Easy now . . . What is it?' When at last I could find and shape the words, I said, 'Philip had a biscuit' . . .

Bruno could never feel comfortable without an animal close to the center of his life, a creature with intelligence and warmth in its eyes, with affection and trust in its greeting.

Her love for Mamaw had always been like that porch light, the one true shining light in her heart when the world proved dark and scary.

Living in a house with a large library," she said, "is a little like living in heaven

But he was not Matthew. He was everything that Matthew was not. He was safety and comfort and warmth. He was home. He was everything in the world that was hope and sunshine. He took a step toward her and opened his arms to her, and she was in those arms without ever knowing how the distance between them had closed.

She looked like someone he must have known all his life. She looked like a little piece of home - whatever the devil his mind meant by presenting him with that odd idea.

I am your husband. When you feel lonely or afraid or unhappy, it is to me you must come. My arms are here for you, and my strength too for whatever it is worth. You will never be a burden to me.

Home had always been a place to dream of.

Sit down, please. It makes me tired to see you stand there.

Standing in the doorway and glancing round me, I had a general impression of extraordinary comfort and elegance combined with an atmosphere of masculine virility.

Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds to a light-house.

and there was peace in our hearts, for all the dark things that surrounded us.

It was simply because, as a doctor, I don't believe a drug should be taken for anything that is just uncomfortable or self-limiting.

Sentimentality, he reflected, was an aid and comfort to the opponents of progress.