Quotes About Comfort

Now and then I leaf through the small blue volume of Emily Dickinson poems that my teacher, Mrs. Crowley, pressed into my hand. I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.

I am the only child in a room full of women and am immediately at ease.

made it through this year because I had to, because I had no options. But now that I've experienced comfort and safety, how can I go back? These thoughts take me to the edge of despair, so I will myself—I force myself—not to have them.

As my health improves I begin to worry: this won't last. I will be sent away. I made it through this year because I had to, because I had no options. But now that I've experienced comfort and safety, how can I go back? These thoughts take me to the edge of despair, so I will myself—I force myself—not to have them.

Pushing the hair back from my face and tracing the line of my jaw with his finger, he says, "With you I'd be happy anywhere.

Dominick and James, six-year-old twins, huddled together for warmth on a pallet on the floor.

Courage is not my leading virtue. I've always avoided change of any sort, operating on the principle of safety first. I married a "safe" man. I've made my living performing humdrum work, work that bored other people so much that they'd pay someone else to do it.

Who shall tell the lady's grief When her Cat was past relief? Who shall number the hot tears Shed o'er her, beloved for years? Who shall say the dark dismay Which her dying caused that day?

You see when a man knows he will be old, he is afraid: when he becomes old, he cares for nothing—love does not count, only comfort; honor does not count, only cheating for a niche.

Ça m'a fait un peu mal, cette voix sans visage, toute grave, tendue et ces cinq petits mots : Mais enfin je suis là.

A conscience at ease is a pillow on which we may sleep soundly even in a dungeon.

You can't comfort the afflicted," the note read, "without afflicting the comfortable.

Are you comfortable with the fact that somebody just tried to kill you?' 'You'd be surprised,' he told her, grinning. 'There's a rather perverse side of me, to whom that part feels like coming home.' 'I'd heard you have a sick sense of humour. To be honest, I think the word "deranged" really sells it.

The success of Flyaway Holidays was propelled by his uncompromising belief in giving people what they wanted when they travelled abroad, viz: exactly the same things they got at home, but with better weather.

Cotton equals death,' Lex told him. 'Cotton holds moisture against the skin and prevents you warming yourself. Trust me, I'm Canadian.

Culture was actually humanity's attempt to extend the womb.

We are all of us lost. The best we can do is make whatever we're lost in as much like home as we can.

MARGARET Have any of you Seen that poor child Alizon? I think she must be lost. NICHOLAS Who isn't? The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can. Now don't be worried. She can't be more lost than she was with us.

I have come Here to have the protection of your laughter.

A good old custom. Always fornicate Between clean sheets and spit on a well-scrubbed floor.

The Bangkok Comfort Zone - that strip running between Patpong, Soi Cowboy and Nana - was a huge bank of ice, thick as a glacier. Only you had to be around years and years to see and feel the deep chill, and by the time you had it was too late, the glacier had already dragged you under.

The dead bolt made a heavy, satisfying thunk as he turned the lock, and Jake found that he liked that sound. He liked it very much.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

If you are called as a missionary—a "sent-out one"—then you are called to comfort those who mourn. You are called to love the broken until they understand God's love—a love that never dies—through you.