Quotes About Comfort

Even something harsh and difficult is a comfort if we choose it ourselves. If it is imposed on us by others, it is agony.

In sostanza chiedevo un letargo, un anestetico, una certezza di essere ben nascosto. Non chiedevo la pace nel mondo, chiedevo la mia.

In short: a good conscience is nothing else but the expression of a desire we all have-to be ourselves and feel comfortable. Those who tell petty, occasional lies suffer far more than great criminals, simply because the latter are thoroughly used to it.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, and the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it." – Cesare Pavese

I also have a hammock I spend a lot of time in - mostly just because hammocks are awesome and people don't have to explain why they have them.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Thank you for grieving with me. Your tears made me feel as if my own were worth shedding.

Home is a name, but a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to...

Lord," Dorothy said aloud, "I know You're with me no matter where I go, whether it's to the familiar or the new…I know it.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

This was his cure for low spirits. When you pour your first cup of coffee of the day, if you're feeling crummy, put a dab of ice cream into it. It's festive. Then you gotta trudge off like everybody else, like I said, but you got the ice cream with you. Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

Is there anything more restorative than the act of one person reading a beloved book to another person, also beloved? Slowly, I returned to my senses.

Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

There is no weather in malls.

I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying." ?Charles Chaplin

I love rain because tears can not be seen in rain.

Although some we rarely see, the thought of them is comforting, like the pleasure of knowing there is a mooring somewhere, if occasionally we want to sail into port.

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.