Quotes About Comfort

when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this.

when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

It's so easy to be easy—if you let it.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don't want to hear about your troubles.

and we are in bed together laughing and we don't care about anything.

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and only a minor love.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.

Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.

They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

that's ONE thing that's wrong with intellectuals and writers - they don't feel a hell of a lot except their own comfort or their own pain. which is normal but shitty.

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

What do you do all day? I just stay in bed. That's awful. No, it's nice. I like it.

That way I wouldn't have to see the guys in their walking shorts. They looked as if nothing had ever touched them- all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheet of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.

I pushed up against her warm tail and was asleep in 45 seconds.

Look, the reason is security, a subconscious need for security. I had a rotten childhood. Two bottles at once fills a void that needs filling. Maybe. I'm not sure.

and you turn over to your left side to get the sun on your back and out of your eyes

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.

I like reading the Sunday papers in bed. I like orange ribbons tied around the cat's neck. I like sleeping up against a body that I know well.