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Quotes About Comfort

Sleep is sweet, whomever it seizes, though he has cares.
~ Homer
my own grief is greatest of all, for you did not stretch forth your arms and embrace me as you lay dying, nor say to me any words that might have lived with me in my tears night and day forever more.
~ Homer
Draw closer to me, let us once more throw our arms around one another, and find sad comfort in the sharing of our sorrows.
~ Homer
When my mother died, a lot of people tried to comfort me by saying, 'Well, you still have your father. You still have a brother and sister. You have a wonderful husband and beautiful children.' And you know what? That's all true. That's all completely true. But I still don't have my mother.
~ Hope Edelman
I do know that mother loss can be heartbreaking at any age. No matter how old we are, we yearn for a mother's love throughout our lives, reaching for the security and comfort we believe only she can provide at times of illness, transition, or stress.
~ Hope Edelman
As we've already seen, individual selectionists insist that a creature—be he man or woman or beast—will only sacrifice his comfort if the payback to his genes is greater than what he gives.
~ Howard Bloom
The [commercial] strip is marketed with the come-on of comfort (the Comfort Inn) and with the promise of a home on the road, a home where nobody knows your name and they're glad to see you as long as you can pay. The strip lives in the contradiction of the name Home Depot—domesticity on a gargantuan scale. Home—a person's native place, at ease, deep; to the heart, says the dictionary, and Depot, a storehouse or a 'warehouse.' (Warehouse of the Heart?)
~ Howard Mansfield
Money, he said, is a terrible nuisance. But it's nice not to have to worry.
~ Hugh Lofting
time for tea.
~ Hugh Lofting
20, 51; 1 Thess. 4:13–17). Sleep is an excellent analogy. The
~ Hugh Ross
Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Relax - This won't hurt.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
This is the generation that went to war for Mom, God and Apple Butter, the American Way of life. When they came back, they crowned Eisenhower and then retired to the giddy comfort their TV parlors to cultivate the subtleties of American history as seen by Hollywood.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions.
~ Iain Banks
he was glad to be alone for a moment and be welcomed by his pyjamas
~ Ian Fleming
All concierges are venal. It is not their fault. They are trained to regard all hotel guests except maharajahs as potential cheats and thieves. They have as much concern for your comfort or well-being as crocodiles.
~ Ian Fleming
he was glad to be alone for a moment and by welcomed by his pyjamas
~ Ian Fleming
Quantum of Solace – the amount of comfort. Yes, I suppose you could say that all love and friendship is based in the end on that.
~ Ian Fleming
But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.
~ Ian Mcewan
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in a ritual of affection, briefly settled in the eternal necessities of warmth, comfort, safety, crossing limbs to draw nearer - a simple daily consolation, almost too obvious, easy to forget by daylight.
~ Ian Mcewan
Lingering here, bored and comfortable, was a form of self-punishment tinged with pleasure, or the expectation of it; if she went away something bad might happen or, worse, something good, something she could not afford to miss.
~ Ian Mcewan
We often tell ourselves off for wasting time in chairs, fully dressed, when we could be doing the same lying down in bed, face to face and naked.
~ Ian Mcewan
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~ Ian Mcewan
They were always there for you, books, like a small pet dog that doesn't die.
~ Ian Sansom