Quotes About Comfort

Job's Comforters believe that they understand why God has made Job suffer. Job does not understand why he suffers, but he thinks he should be able to find out. He

It's nice having a bear about the house.

I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.

The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature.

Now, watching the old priest comfort the dying man in low, musical Latin, my grandfather felt some inner tether come unlashed. His cheeks burned. His eyes stung. For the first and only time in his life, he felt the beauty that inhered in the idea of Jesus Christ, in the message of comfort that had managed to survive, reasonably intact, despite having been so thoroughly corrupted and profaned over the past two thousand years by Christians.

All he would have needed to do, to find comfort in the Christian's words, was to believe.

It's the kind of house you'd like to wake up in on Christmas morning.

They fell asleep holding each other and were wakened by a smell, comforting and maternal, of boiled milk and salt water.

It was the very color of the way my grandmother smelled; the color of the warmth of her lap and enfolding arms; the color of her husky voice resounding in her rib cage when she pulled me close.

If I could work without the pants on," he said, "I would go naked.

He defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company.

She had said she was strong but he knew that comfort and strength could come from sadness. That was what she had.

The sun and salt air worked deeply on her muscles and eased the tension and pain. It

Did an angel whisper in your ear hold you close and take away all your fear in those long, last moments

Somebody once said that a person's favorite restaurant is where they know you. That might be true. They knew me at Dan Tana's and I knew them: Christian at the door, Arturo at the table, Mike behind the bar. But that didn't obscure the fact that the kitschy Italian joint with checkered tablecloths served up the best New York strip in the city. I liked the place because they knew me, but I liked the steak even better.

Cómo? —Vamos a subir por la pared y nos meteremos en un túnel que nos llevará hasta el ascensor. —Me dan miedo los túneles. —No tienes que asustarte, Jodie. Yo estaré

You know, there's a reason why people like morphine," he said.

I'm sorry, kitten. It'll all be over soon." I managed to say between sobs. "Meow." The kitten said. "Goodbye.

She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.

There's no comfort, it seems, in the world of objects.

She will never mention to Leonard that she'd planned on fleeing, even for a few hours. As if he were the one in need of care and comfort--as if he were the one in danger.

She simply does what her daughter tells her to, and finds a surprising relief in it. Maybe, she thinks, one could begin dying into this: the ministrations of a grown daughter, the comforts of a room. Here, then, is age. Here are the little consolations, the lamp and the book. Here is the world, increasingly managed by people who are not you; who will do either well or badly; who do not look at you when they pass you in the street.

Superstitions are a comfort sometimes, I don't know why you so adamantly refuse all comforts.

We are adaptable creatures. It's the source of our earthly comfort and, I suppose, of our silent rage goodreads