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Quotes About Comfort

In the Bible there is that which meets every need of man, which answers every mood, which speaks to every heart.
~ J. Gresham Machen
You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
~ J. K. Rowling
Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.
~ J. K. Rowling
It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.
~ J. K. Rowling
Harry found the hot drink... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.
~ J. K. Rowling
You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.
~ J. Patrick Lewis
To simply hold a book, to imagine what it might say, would be a comfort.
~ J. R. Moehringer
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
No one should be left to suffer alone.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Is that all I have to look forward to? Comfort? I think I should prefer to be happy." "As you grow older, there is a lot to be said for being comfortable, ma'am. But I don't expect you to believe me. When I was your age I too wanted to be happy.
~ Daisy Goodwin
Lists comforted her - they gave her a sense of accomplishment - they meant she had control of something.
~ Unknown
Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.
~ Dalai Lama
Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
~ Dalai Lama
Because freedom, it turned out, wasn't like a new shoe: you didn't need to break it in. It felt comfortable the first time you tried it on. It wasn't the present that pinched, it was the past.
~ Dale Peck
There's no place like home. No place safer. No place scarier.
~ Damian Barr
Cold, cold water, surrounds me now, and all I've got is your hand.
~ Damien Rice
I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.
~ Damien Rice
You have to make them look peaceful. That's what the family wants to see, that their loved one is at peace.
~ Damon Galgut
Perhaps we are cursed,' Karkasy told the empty fane, 'to crave something which does not exist. There are no gods, no spirits, no daemons. So we make them up, to comfort ourselves.
~ Dan Abnett