Quotes About Soothed

there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others, as an insult.

But you...are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine. —Mama Ya-Ya

But you...are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine. —Mama Ya-Ya

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

The chill of the rain disappeared. The rain itself seemed to evaporate. The fatigue vanished. The night. Everything distilled to the brilliant pulsing bead of glass pain she herself had given rise to. She felt exhilaration and relief. She felt soothed and punished. She felt control.

And so I had only writing to comfort but it never soothed, it only marked the wound — Kazim Ali, from "Mountain Time," The American Poetry Review (vol. 50, no. 1, January/February 2021)

Let him see his judgement, let his heart become soothed.

day's work, I drifted into sleep at once, soothed

His inmost feelings remained a mystery still. Perhaps to himself, she thought, as much as to her. For could even he explain how it was that while he had terrified her at first with his arrogant anger, yet in the end it was his tenderness and gentleness which had soothed her? And she had lain quiet in his arms, tranquil and glad to be there, even though the after-sobs of the storm that had passed still shook her.

Insecurity was soothed by entitlement.