Quotes About Comfort

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Often when a physician cannot imagine what else to do for someone who is feeling helpless and hopeless—for whom life has no value—I find that love is the answer.

But my core belief—that no matter what happens, God is with me—never wavers. And it's a great comfort to know that once you turn your life over to him, you never have to face anything alone again." He

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship...

They really wanted to remain always in their own house and their own garden. There are such people.

And I was upset to find how really reluctant I was to leave my little flat. It was as if I was almost frightened. Spasms of prophetic homesickness pierced me as I rearranged the china and dusted it with my handkerchief, obsessive visions of burglaries and desecrations.

Well, we all three loved and comforted each other. We were poorish and lonely and awkward together.

And he could not help being a little bit cheered up and consoled as he got into the Bentley and set off alone for Oxford.

We'll see you through, Martin, said Antonia . . . So do not be guilty or worried, darling Martin. I won't be guilty or worried, I'll be raving mad, I said. I don't want you to see me through. I want to be left alone by both of you at long last.

Now that the doors of possibility had magically opened one after the other, Ludens realised how much comfort he had derived from uncertainty.

Then she thought, is this really all I have to look forward to, is this what I have to comfort myself with?

There are false suns, easier to gaze upon and far more comforting than the true one.

I have felt more passion with less comfort elsewhere: the mysterious deep half-blind preferences of human beings for each other, the quick probing tentacles that seek in the dark, why one inexplicably and yet certainly loves A and is indifferent to B.

People may be settled into ways of life which preclude continued happiness, but which are satisfactory and far to be preferred to alternatives.

It was too late to go to Gaze now, everyone would be in bed. It was a comforting thought. Whatever was happening it was not happening now. There was nothing he could do now. Sleep was overwhelming him again, great clouds and folds of sleep like a warm fog.

The only consolation I had was buying things. If I bought some pretty thing it cheered me up for a while.

It felt strange telling the truth, he'd got so comfortable with deception. It made him feel real, and consequently vulnerable. tended to look at ma behaviour and ways of modifying it, rather than determining its causes.

Despite the grief, there was no disguising the sense of relief in the air.

It's pleasant to get used to the expensive, the soft, the comfortable. Once you're addicted, it's so easy to become a sycophant, to trim the sails of your judgment in order to be kept on. The next step is to change your work to please those in power, and that is death to the sculptor.

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?

It is a mistake," he said, "to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.

And his idea of solid comfort was to be left in utter solitude for two or three hours.

There is no pleasure like the absence of pain – immediately after pain.