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Quotes About Comforting

Have faith in poets, for they have not been ashamed to tell you that men suffer. They have not been afraid to look life in the face: and often the encounter is more comforting than you had expected.
~ Christopher Morley
The comforting news for every American is that our men and women in uniform, and every Marine, is as good today as any in our history.
~ John F. Kelly
friendliness also mean being sensitive to the children's feelings: sharing their joy over a new friend, comforting them when their ice cream falls on the ground, listening sympathetically when they're
~ Thomas W. Phelan
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
~ Thornton Wilder
The best thing about animals is they don't talk much
~ Thornton Wilder
I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nostalgic. To me, that's what sampling does in songs; it's making deeper layers for people who know where it comes from, but also referencing another part of my history and my memory or a memory that I have.
~ Jamila Woods
I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever – was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I'll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I'm keeping the last shell for myself.
~ Charles Stross
All those stories about time travel, they were comforting, and at the same time it bothered me how they always made it seem fun and how everything fit into place, how things could only ever be how they were supposed to be, how the heroes found a way to change the world while still obeying the laws of physics.
~ Charles Yu
Maybe you've put your faith in spiritual claptrap because our random, narrative-free universe terrifies you. But that's no solution. If you want comforting, suck your thumb. Buy a pillow. Don't make up a load of floaty blah about energy or destiny. This is the real world, stupid. We should be solving problems, not sticking our fingers in our ears and singing about fairies.
~ Charlton
tea is comforting because it brings us down to earth— water, leaves, warmth it is earth, imbibed
~ Terri Guillemets
Moonlight is a beautiful and comforting reminder that the sun is still out there somewhere.
~ Terri Guillemets
I hide myself in the quiet white of winter and nestle in her comforting folds of cold oblivion
~ Terri Guillemets
You may think that Much-Afraid was altogether too much given to shedding tears, but remember that she had Sorrow for a companion and teacher. There is this to be added, that her tears were all in secret, for no one but her enemies knew about this strange journey on which she had set out. The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow. But
~ Hannah Hurnard
Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me they're just good.
~ Lee DeWyze
As if he were reading her thoughts, Klaus put a hand on Violet's shoulder, and she smiled at him. Klaus had known for all his twelve years that his sister found a hand on her shoulder comforting- as long as the hand was attached to an arm, of course.
~ Lemony Snicket
As if he were reading her thoughts, Klaus put a hand on Violet's shoulder, and she smiled at him. Klaus had known for all his twelve years that his older sister found a hand on her shoulder comforting- as long as the hand was attached to an arm, of course.
~ Lemony Snicket
El olor de comida cocinándose es a menudo relajante.
~ Lemony Snicket
Klaus had known for all twelve of his years that his older sister found a hand on her shoulder comforting—as long as the hand was attached to an arm, of course.
~ Lemony Snicket
Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source." These thoughts seemed to him comforting. But they were only thoughts. Something was lacking in them, they were not clear, they were too one-sidedly personal and brain-spun. And there was the former agitation and obscurity.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.
~ Peter Zumthor
I like plans. They create a comforting illusion of sanity and order.
~ Tim Pratt
Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.
~ Timothy B. Tyson
For some reason, I always have an allegiance to Ohio. I had a great childhood, and to return to it is very comforting.
~ Sam Jaeger
You have no reason to show shame. Sometimes our spirit weeps. When it does you must work at comforting it, and then healing it.
~ P.C. Cast