Quotes About Comfort

Christ, will I ever find someone who is not crying inside?

Humor is how we find comfort in the totally illogical, for it is the bridge back to the logical.

This is the terrible fix we are in. If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our efforts are in the long run hopeless. But if it is, then we are making ourselves enemies to that goodness every day, and are not in the least likely to do any better tomorrow, and so our case is hopeless again.... God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

"I weep for you," the Walrus said:"I deeply sympathize."With sobs and tears he sorted outThose of the largest size,Holding his pocket-handkerchiefBefore his streaming eyes.

She was close in her husband's arms; she clung to him; whatever of strangeness and slowness and insularity she might find in him, none of that mattered so long as she could slip her hands beneath his coat, run her fingers over the warm smoothness of the satin back of his waistcoat, seem almost to creep into his body, find in him strength, find in the courage and kindness of her man a shelter from the perplexing world.

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.

My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.

I feel like I've really made Laguna my home, and I've got this overwhelming urge now to sort of make friends.

The best thing of all is God is with us.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Sometimes bad things happen to good people. We don't know the meaning of all things, but we know God loves His children! And because He loves us, He will never desert us.

I build an entire fort out of pillows. I need at least four pillows. I need on each side, I need one normal usage pillow for the back of my head, and I need another pillow just in case.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.

I used to be a conscious person in terms of dressing, and I wasn't comfortable with my body, so I wouldn't dress in a certain way. Now I am comfortable, and nothing bothers me. Once you are comfortable, everything starts looking good.

I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.

I think there's a reason that horror appeals to teens. There's a lot of useful lessons to take away from reading horror. We get to be scared in the comfort and safety of our own homes. We can put the book down if we get too scared, and no one will ever know if we decide not to pick it up again.