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Quotes About Comfort

He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
~ Virginia Woolf
When two people have been married for years they seem to become unconscious of each other's bodily presence so that they move as if alone, speak aloud things which they do not expect to be answered, and in general seem to experience all the comfort of solitude without its loneliness.
~ Virginia Woolf
It would be a comfort, she felt, to lean; to sit down; yes, to lie down; never, never, never to get up again.
~ Virginia Woolf
If only he could be alone in his room working, he thought, among his books. That was where he felt at his ease.
~ Virginia Woolf
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought, and no doubt if you are of a mystical tendency, consolation, and even explanation, shower down from the unbroken surface.
~ Virginia Woolf
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought, and no doubt if you are of a mystical tendency, consolation, and even explanation, shower down from the unbroken surface. But
~ Virginia Woolf
An open page displays lines from Cymbeline, a song of death, a lament: "'Fear no more the heat o' the sun/Nor the furious winter's rages.
~ Virginia Woolf
f anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness.
~ Virginia Woolf
Here is something definite, something real. Thus, waking from a midnight dream of horror, one hastily turns on the light and lies quiescent, worshipping the chest of drawers, worshipping solidity, worshipping reality, worshipping the impersonal world which is a proof of some existence other than ours. That is what one wants to be sure of…
~ Virginia Woolf
Åžimdi ac?m? mendilime saraca??m. S?ms?k? düÄŸüm olacak.
~ Virginia Woolf
What one would expect to find would be that rather later perhaps some great lady would take advantage of her comparative freedom and comfort to publish something with her name to it and risk being thought a monster.
~ Virginia Woolf
Thus Arabel at once "began to comfort me by showing how certain it was that I should recover him for ten pounds at most." Ten pounds, it was reckoned, was about the price that Mr. Taylor would ask for a cocker spaniel. Mr. Taylor was the head of the gang. As soon as a lady in Wimpole Street lost her dog she went to Mr. Taylor; he named his price, and it was paid; or if not, a brown paper parcel was delivered in Wimpole Street a few days later containing the head and paws of the dog.
~ Virginia Woolf
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
~ Vivekananda
You see, we find comfort in telling ourselves that the world could not exist without us, that it exists only inasmuch as we ourselves exist, inasmuch as we can represent it to ourselves. Death, infinite space, galaxies, all this is frightening, exactly because it transcends the limits of our perception.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
As to the past, I would not mind retrieving from various corners of space-time certain lost comforts, such as baggy trousers and long, deep bathtubs.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Greek Catholic Church, that mild communion whose demands on one's conscience are so small in comparison with the comforts it offers.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Moth holes had appeared in the plush of matrimonial comfort.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
nos aferramos a lo que conocemos, incluso a sabiendas de que no deberíamos
~ W. Chan Kim
Red oceans may not be the paths to future profitable growth, but they feel comfortable to people and may have even served an organization well until now, so why rock the boat?
~ W. Chan Kim
When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
~ Langston Hughes
The silence inside the library, the big chairs, and long tables, and the fact that the library was always there and didn't seem to have a mortgage on it, or any sort of insecurity about it—all of that made me love it.
~ Langston Hughes
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
~ Langston Hughes
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
~ Lao Tzu
You stayed," he murmured... Her softly whispered answer sifted into his hair where her lips rested against the top of his head. "You didn't let go.
~ Lara Adrian