Quotes About Comfort

I think good poetry should startle, shatter and, yes, entertain while getting as close to the truth as possible. I can get all the comfort I need from a good cigar.

I could stay here, I thought, make money at the track while she nurses me over the bad moments, rubs oils on my body, cooks for me, talks to me, goes to bed with me.

It was going to be alright. At last. For a while.

What do I think is important? Good wine, good plumbing and to be able to sleep late in the mornings.

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit.

They needed me to make themselves feel better. Just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

She has saved me from everything that is not here.

Adoro quelli che si sentono fuori posto, con loro mi sento sempre nel posto giusto.

nothing like a hot bath in a cold world.

I felt better being alone.

L'amore è una forma di pregiudizio. Si ama quello di cui si ha bisogno, quello che ci fa star bene, quello che ci fa comodo. Come fai a dire che ami una persona, quando al mondo ci sono migliaia di persone che potresti amare di più, se solo le incontrassi? Il fatto è che non le incontri.

Carrying their flints and torches, Native Americans were living in balance with Nature—but they had their thumbs on the scale. Shaped for their comfort and convenience, the American landscape had come to fit their lives like comfortable clothing. It was a highly successful and stable system, if "stable" is the appropriate word for a regime that involves routinely enshrouding miles of countryside in smoke and ash.

Carrying their flints and torches, Native Americans were living in balance with Nature—but they had their thumbs on the scale. Shaped for their comfort and convenience, the American landscape had come to fit their lives like comfortable clothing. It was a highly successful and stable system, if "stable" is the appropriate word for a regime that involves routinely enshrouding miles of countryside in smoke and ash. And

I Will fear no evil for thou art with me Lord, your Word and your Spirit they comfort me (Psalms 23:4).

She had an incredible sweetness that touched us, and a gentle soul that blazed. Now that she's gone, we're still reaching for the glow - willing to grab what light we can." - Charles Casillo

Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

My idea of happiness is a rainy evening with a comfortable book to read.

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held more for him than just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument against the notion that things just happen.

And slept like a dead pig;

For when all things were made, none was made better than this: to be a lone man's companion, a sad man's cordial, a chilly man's fire. . . . There is no herb like it under the canopy of heaven.

Four corners to my bed      Four angels round my head;      Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,      Bless the bed that I lie on.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead--from human souls we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

I gird myself today with the power of God: God's strength to comfort me, God's might to uphold me, God's wisdom to guide me, God's eye to look before me, God's ear to hear me, God's word to speak for me, God's hand to lead me, God's way to lie before me, God's shield to protect me. ..