Quotes About Comforting

I can tell you only that beauty cannot be expressed or explained in a theory or an idea, that it moves by its own law, that it is God's way of comforting His broken children.

for the rest of my life- to resemble this one: both complex and strangely comforting.

Do you suppose it's dangerous? she asked her father, who said a lot of comforting things that didn't mean anything.

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here"—that one's own little time and place is beyond cataclysms. And now it was happening here.

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that 'it can't happen here' – that one's own little time and place is beyond cataclysms.

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

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.

There is something enveloping and voluptuous about the notion of fatality: it keeps you warm.

Yes, I love September,' agreed Belinda, guilty at having let her thoughts wander from her guest. 'Michaelmas daisies and blackberries and comforting things like fires in the evening again and knitting.

When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.

The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity.

Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.

These thoughts were a wonderful escape from the present. Comfortingly, the past was unwinding before me, my wonderful childhood, safe and sheltered, too sheltered perhaps for what the years ahead were to bring, but full of lovely memories from which to draw strength.

Just then, a reversal occurred in which the key turned suddenly in the lock. That is the most comforting sound in a person's life, isn't it? When the other uses his own key to finally come home. Behind

How very comforting. If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing

My all-time favorite skin cream is from Poland. Its called Eva Natura with Polish herbs, including rosemary. It smells wonderful and is soothing and comforting.

Caminaba yo por el sendero muy descorazonado, cuando me sentí penetrado de una sensación reconfortante, alegre y cosquilleante, igual que un burbujeo, y tan alegre, que no es posible explicarlo con palabras, porque comprendí por esa señal que Satanás estaba cerca. Ya

Becky cried, and Tom tried to think of some way of comforting her, but all his encouragements were grown threadbare with use, and sounded like sarcasms.

But desperation easily turns into fanaticism. People adopt inflexible views as a comforting defense mechanism when they find themselves threatened and overwhelmed by forces they cannot control.

The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Was that the boss you were talking about? That man today?' The wine was delicious. I took another sip. I hadn't dared drink while Lily had been with me: I might have let my guard down. 'Yup.' 'I know the type. If it's any consolation, within five years he'll either have a stomach ulcer or enough hypertension to cause erectile dysfunction.' I laughed. 'Both those thoughts are oddly comforting.

Most people react this way when I tell them about the Nazis. Would it be more or less comforting if we could attribute that particular part of our history to the supernatural?

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.