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Quotes About Comfort

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. It is no season in which to wander the world as if one were the wind blowing aimlessly along the streets without a place to rest, without food, and without time meaning anything to one, just as time means nothing to the wind.
~ Edith Sitwell
Reading in bed is a gateway drug to writing in bed.
~ Terri Guillemets
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
~ Jewish proverb
I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hope is grief's best music.
~ Proverb
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
~ May Sarton
A house needs a grandma in it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
There's no place like home... except Grandma's.
~ Author Unknown
Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.
~ Author Unknown
If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.
~ Italian proverb
The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap.
~ Author Unknown
My favorite place to be is snuggled up in your heart.
~ Terri Guillemets
Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart.
~ Author Unknown
...The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven...
~ William Goldsmith Brown
Who fed me from her gentle breast, And hush'd me in her arms to rest, And on my cheek sweet kisses prest? My Mother.
~ Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
When sleep forsook my open eye, Who was it sung sweet lullaby, And rock'd me that I should not cry? My Mother.
~ Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
A mother is the truest friend we have; when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends, who rejoiced with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
~ Author unknown, c. 1875
God is closest to those with broken hearts.
~ Jewish Saying
But it is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them...
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838
A hug is a great gift — one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange.
~ Author Unknown
Talking to your best friend is sometimes all the therapy you need.
~ Author Unknown
I am pleased that lying on the sofa being a slob is finally considered the responsible thing to do.
~ Matt Haig, March 2020
Ah! there is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
~ Jane Austen, 1815
Five of the sweetest words in the English language begin with H, which is only a breath — Heart, Hope, Home, Happiness, and Heaven. Heart is a hope-place, and home is a heart-place; and that man sadly mistaketh, who would exchange the happiness of home for anything less than heaven.
~ The Youth's Companion, 1853