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Quotes About Comfort

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.
~ Maya Angelou
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
~ Maya Angelou
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
~ Maya Angelou
Late October Carefully the leaves of autumn sprinkle down the tinny sound of little dyings and skies sated of ruddy sunsets of roseate dawns roil ceaselessly in cobweb greys and turn to black for comfort. Only lovers see the fall a signal end to endings a gruffish gesture alerting those who will not be alarmed that we begin to stop in order to begin again.
~ Maya Angelou
I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.
~ Maya Angelou
I have found that the platonic affection in friendships and familial love for children can be relied upon with certainty to lift the bruised soul and repair the wounded spirit
~ Maya Angelou
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
~ Maya Angelou
Carefully the leaves of autumn sprinkle down the tinny sound of little dyings and skies sated of ruddy sunsets of roseate dawns roil ceaselessly in cobweb grey and turn to black for comfort.
~ Maya Angelou
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. Curly
~ Maya Angelou
Misery is a faithful company keeper, and Comfort was dissolving under its attention.
~ Maya Angelou
Fall gently, snowflakes Cover me with white Cold icy kisses and Let me rest tonight.
~ Maya Angelou
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
~ Maya Angelou
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. In my rented room (cooking privileges down the hall), I would play a record, then put my arms around the shoulder of the song. As we danced, glued together, I would nuzzle into its neck, kissing the skin, and rubbing its cheek with my own.
~ Maya Angelou
For all his theatrics, or maybe because of them, I knew he was a strong man. I had always been more comfortable around strong people.
~ Maya Angelou
You don't have to nurse her. There are nurses here to do that. I only want you to hold her hand.
~ Maya Angelou
Only the secure can bear the weight of a joke and only the very secure can join in the laughter.
~ Maya Angelou
If I am comfortable inside my skin, I have the ability to make other people comfortable inside their skins.
~ Maya Angelou
Every person needs a place that is furnished with hope.
~ Maya Angelou
Is there something wrong?" he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze blowing off the lake. "You could hold me now." It was almost his undoing. "Ah baby.
~ Maya Banks
He was better than any drug, any remedy for her illness.
~ Maya Banks
He walked hesitantly toward her and then wrapped his arms around her in a gentle hug. "You just looked like you needed one," he said.
~ Maya Banks
I'm not going to hurt you, damn it.
~ Maya Banks
I just want to hold you for a while.
~ Maya Banks
And that makes Mia sad. But it's okay. She'll have Bethany. And me.
~ Maya Banks