Quotes About Comfort

Sometimes just showing up for someone else is good enough. I

To me, being spooned has always been an instant sleeping pill. This closeness with my mom gave me the utmost feeling of comfort and safety.

They prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

By bedtime Nanny was at my side as usual, arriving with a large sweet potato, its tummy open with a spoon sticking out of the middle, tiny wisps of steam curling upwards and condensing on the handle. There is something about a sweet potato that cheers you up when you are low and it celebrates with you when you are happy. Sweet potatoes baked in their jackets have a very large comfort factor built into them.

sweet potatoes in their jackets have a large comfort value built into them

Wanda: I can't stand people, I hate them. Henry: Oh yeah? Wanda: Do you hate them? Henry: No, but I seem to feel better when they're not around.

Seeking comfort, you give yourself discomfort.

A luxury, once enjoyed, becomes a necessity.

In torment, there was release. In the darkness, there was light. In solitude, there were companions.

Morrison was treading on very thin ice, the words strained, and the only reason he was doing it was for me. I looked at him and wondered what he'd do if I curled myself against his chest and held on. I didn't even think I had it in me to cry. I just wanted to be somewhere safe for a little while, and Captain Michael Morrison's arms seemed like the safest place in the world right then.

HOw do you protect a child from heartbreak? All I know is the egg wants to be held all the time, and perhaps if I hold her all the time she will know that she is loved in such a fundamental and profound way that when her heart is broken as an adult, she will not fall apart, will know that she is still loved and lovable.

If you walk into a woman's apartment and nothing's out of place, you know she's not going to want to stay in bed all day and order in Chinese food and eat it in bed. She's going to make you get up and eat toast at the kitchen table.

His core furnishings were an XBox console, a 60-inch plasma

George Graveline had a motto by which he faithfully lived: Always park in the shade.

What do we really want from religion? Palliatives? Therapy? Comfort? Do we want reassuring fables or an understanding of our actual circumstances? Dismay that the Universe does not conform to our preferences seems childish. You might think that grown-ups would be ashamed to put such thoughts into print. The fashionable way of doing this is not to blame the Universe -- which seems truly pointless -- but rather to blame the means by which we know the Universe, namely science.

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. HENRI POINCARÉ (1854–1912)

Ignorance - of mortality - is a comfort. A man don't have that comfort, he's the only living thing that conceives of death, that knows what it is.

Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they're willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.

If we have less time alive than the time we have lived, shouldn't it all be comfort food?

There's something healing about sitting here and listening to the waves, knowing that God is still in control even when it seems like he's not.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

It is in the nature of things to want to believe that what's familiar and comfortable will last forever.

Bot pharmacists." Cay spits out the words. "The companies have so much trouble with drug robberies and theft in the Zone they can't get anyone else to work the counters. That one's good enough at its job of filling and delivering prescriptions in its database, but out of its comfort zone when it comes to anything else.