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Quotes About Reassurance

He promised us that everything would be OK. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be OK. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my name again and again. Oskar! Oskar! Maybe I didn't even like it, but I needed it right then.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
she wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
You do not have to present not-truths to me, Sasha. I am not a child. (But I do. That is what you always fail to understand. I present not-truths to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.) I do not understand, I said. (I understand.) You do not? he said. (You do.) ... I am not a bad person, he said. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time. I know this, I said. (Even if you were a bad person, I would still know you are a good person.)
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Ci promise che tutto sarebbe andato bene. Anche se ero una bambina sapevo che non sarebbe andato così. Ma questo non faceva di mio padre un bugiardo. Faceva di lui mio padre.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
His tongue rubbed over hers, offering comfort and reassurance.
~ Jory Strong
The Fantasy is a reassurance - a promise that the peace of Paradise... is not to be lost...
~ Joseph Campbell
That said, he diplomatically added that all the participating nations wanted to reassure France that "what she has just gone through never will occur again.
~ A. Scott Berg
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh. After careful thought Piglet was comforted by this.
~ A.A. Milne
Puchatku! - Co, Prosiaczku? - Nic - rzek? Prosiaczek, bior?c Puchatka za ?apk?. - Chcia?em si? tylko upewni?, czy jeste?.
~ A.A. Milne
I don't know what to say.' 'That's okay. Sometimes talking is like singing in a storm.' 'Like when you're scared?' 'Exactly.' 'Or when you're sad?' 'That too. A voice can be reassuring.
~ Élise Turcotte
This is the thing: He isn't calling about his exam. I don't want to know that, but I do. He's calling to be reassured about something he can't put into words yet. I glimpsed it in him when he was young, but told myself, No, don't imagine that. Children have stages; he'll change. Then the words started running out of him in a torrent, and I knew they were being chased out by a force he couldn't see. What was I supposed to say to Margaret? That I see it in him?
~ Adam Haslett
But holding Michael had always been like holding a little person, who knew that his feeding would end, who knew that if you were picked up you would be put down, that the comfort came but also went.
~ Adam Haslett
holding Michael had always been like holding a little person, who knew that his feeding would end, who knew that if you were picked up you would be put down, that the comfort came but also went. Without knowing what it was, I'd felt that tension in his little groping arms and fitful legs, the discomfort of the foreknowledge
~ Adam Haslett
We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of case. Here is one: 100 percent of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared by the mass shooters, which there will not be, none of the killings would have happened if they didn't have guns.
~ Adam Rutherford
There are youngsters who prefer no talk at all when they're upset. For them, Mom or Dad's presence is comfort enough.
~ Adele Faber
When we urge a child to push a bad feeling away— however kindly—the child seems to get only more upset.
~ Adele Faber
That's all beliefs are; stories we tell ourselves to stop being afraid. Beliefs have very little to do with the truth.
~ Adrian J. Walker
If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
~ Irving Kirsch
A quite conscience makes one a quite reassuring.
~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida
I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr. Jones.Oh no, my Lord, I assure you! Parts of it are excellent!
~ Punch
The most destructive thing you can do when faced with panic attacks is to steadfastly believe that your physical discomfort means that you have a serious physical illness, despite continued professional reassurance to the contrary. That is why it is essential that you work with a physician whom you can trust until he or she reaches a diagnosis.
~ R. Reid Wilson
At the time, he had got rid of her so efficiently and so suavely that she had felt almost reassured even as she was being left behind.
~ Rachel Cusk