Quotes About Comfort

Or take the Sophie,' cried the master, anxious to bring his crumb of comfort. 'She's rightly a brig, you know, Doctor, with her two masts.' He held up two fingers, in case a landman might not fully comprehend so great a number. 'But the minute Captain Aubrey sets foot in her, why, she too becomes a sloop; for a brig is a lieutenant's command.

The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.

One of the miseries of medical life is that on the one hand you know what shocking things can happen to the human body and on the other you know how very little we can really do about most of them. You are therefore denied the comfort of faith.

Matisse said, "A work of art must, both for the businessman and for the artist, be a mental tranquilizer, something in the nature of an armchair that gives him ease and comfort after bodily fatigue.

She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.

thing, the unthinking laughter of the secure.

God did not come to do away with suffering; he did not even come to explain it. He came to fill it with his presence.

The wrath of men shall praise you, says the Bible (Psalm 76:10 ESV), and the fear of the Lord is to hate evil (Proverbs 8:13). Right now, Christian Nice Guys hate only what disrupts comfort.

There is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question

This is her home now...of her own free will.

And when the night is cloudy There is still a light That shines on me Shine on till tomorrow, Let It Be...

There's nothing like a good downpour to cool people off.

The English, once they began falling physically apart, did so with all their customary attention to detail, as if fitting themselves in advance for their own corpses to make sure they were going to be comfortable in them.

Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me.

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.

an avoidance of confrontation and a sustaining refuge in the comforts of family life.

If he doesn't talk to me, and he doesn't walk around with me, and he doesn't travel in the same compartment,' I said, 'I don't understand why he wants to come with me.' 'To make sure you are comfortable. Hospitality. You are our guest ...

back to my hotel, where it was always mealtime.

At my lowest point, when things were at their most desperate and uncomfortable, I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

And I began writing, to console myself in my solitude and to ease the passing of time.

I had my own compartment - plenty of space, plenty of provisions, the grapes, cookies, chocolates and tea that made being on the Trans-Siberian like a luxurious form of convalescence.

She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger