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Quotes About Comforting

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
~ Anne Sexton
But my sadness is comforting Because it's right and natural And because it's what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I'd love to look incredibly glamorous, but I am a wholesome, comforting nanny type: I think I look like an advertisement for wholemeal flour or something.
~ Prue Leith
It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'
~ Kelly Macdonald
Family life could never be made to run smoothly. At least in the lab the variables had a comforting predictability and problems lent themselves to the scientific method.
~ Robin Cook
Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.
~ Robin Hobb
I believe you know my quest from its beginning to its end, and that I seed to learn my parentage. Parentage? said Orddu. Nothing easier. Choose any parents you please. Since none of you has ever known each other, what difference can it possibly make - to them or to you? Believe what you like. You'll be surprised how comforting it is.
~ Lloyd Alexander
There is something comforting, thinks Mack, in embracing someone the same size as you.
~ Lorrie Moore
Her companionship had saved his reason, and in her own uncomplicated way she had got him through the blackest times, comforting by simply accepting his limitations.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Her attitude towards sex is very comforting to those of her friends who get into terrible states of passion and jealousy, and feel cut loose from their moorings. She seems to regard sex as a wholesome, slightly silly indulgence, like dancing and nice dinners--something that shouldn't interfere with people's being kind and cheerful to each other.
~ Alice Munro
The presence of gods has been enormously comforting as we have continued to dutifully cross the stage of life, going about or daily tasks, yet knowing that Pale Death was waiting in the wings.
~ E. Fuller Torrey
He had such a reassuring round face, like a dinner plate, warm from washing.
~ E. Lockhart
The truth was they both played a game, mythical and perverse, but for all that comforting: it was one of the many dangerous pleasures of domestic love.
~ Edith Grossman
Mac and cheese, that's God's best handiwork.
~ Anonymous
I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.
~ Ellie Goulding
I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.
~ Nell Freudenberger
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
~ Franz Kafka
The last time I ordered soup in a restaurant was - well, let me see - possibly never. That's because in my mind, soup is something to be made and eaten at home, ideally with a cuddly animal at your feet in front of a blazing fireplace while the wind whips outside.
~ Claire Saffitz
As often is the case with addictions, the fanciful notion of a gradual discontinuance only provided a comforting pretext for more sustained indulgence.
~ Ron Chernow
The cold was deeper, the dark blacker, the hard air reassuringly Minnesota. We
~ Louise Erdrich
When there is fear about the future, it is comforting to take it out on outsiders who can be blamed for the past.
~ Sarah Dunant
You're very comforting, I don't know why. You're like a very small casserole – has anyone ever told you that?
~ Sarah Ruhl
That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn't going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton