Quotes About Comfort

It was like living in a library, and that was where I had always been happiest.

Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm.

The saggy armchair of clichés.

I could have been a priest instead of a prophet. The priest has a book with the words set out. Old words, known words, words of power. Words that are always on the surface. Words for every occasion. The words work. They do what they're supposed to do; comfort and discipline. The prophet has no book. The prophet is a voice that cries in the wilderness, full of sounds that do not always set into meaning. The prophets cry out because they are troubled by demons.

I libri sono per me una casa. I libri non fanno una casa, sono una casa, nel senso che, così come apri una porta, apri un libro e ci entri.

If I am a wound would love be my salve? If I am speechless would love be a mouth?

Let me read to you," said Roger Nowell. "It is a night for reading.

I libri per me sono una casa. I libri non fanno una casa, sono una casa, nel senso che, così come pari una porta, apri un libro e ci entri. Dentro trovi un'altra dimensione temporale, e un'altra dimensione spaziale. Trovi un calore, un focolare. Mi siedo a leggere un libro e avverto una sensazione di tepore. Come mi succedeva in quelle fredde notti passate sui gradini d'ingresso.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

The day had a strange but comforting feel to it, like a rest between the end of one time and the beginning of another.

The place where you live - your home - is one of the most important things in a body's life.

A little while after we'd moved into the depot, we heard Mom and Dad talking about buying us kids real beds, and we said they shouldn't do it. We liked our boxes. They made going to bed seem like an adventure.

We raised our glasses. I could almost hear Dad chuckling at Mom's comment in the way he always did when he was truly enjoying something. It had grown dark outside. A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order.

If things don't work out, you can always come home, he said. I'll be here for you. You know that, don't you? I know. I knew that in his way, he would be. I also knew I'd never be coming back.

Sue scraped the meat into a bowl, mixed it with mayonnaise and Cheez Whiz, then crushed a handful of potato chips and added them. She spread the mixture onto two slices of Wonder bread, then rolled each slice into a cylinder and passed

Slow down, Sallie." Tom puts a hand on my arm, and then in a gentler voice says, "Your aunt will be okay. We'll see to that." "She wouldn't have got hurt if I'd been there." "Sallie, I don't know if that's true, and you don't either. But I do know you couldn't stay in Hatfield when the Duke sent for you. You had to come back. You had no choice.

I've dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you'll see how nice I can be.

Love's a grand solace, isn't it, my friend? Deep and dark as sleep.

So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you'll see how nice I can be.

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax

Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times.

Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.

God goes to work with you and does the laundry with you too. There's no place that God is not.