Comforting Thought Quotes

#1. Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was tapping my telephone, it must certainly have heard some home truths from me about themselves, often couched in good Anglo-Saxon terms.

Helen Suzman

#2. Oh, don't you see? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

Woody Allen

#4. Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

Woody Allen

#5. The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I'll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It's a comforting thought.

George MacDonald Fraser

#6. That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

Scott Westerfeld

#7. Anheuser-Busch gives two free cases of beer to its employees at all of its parks, like Busch Gardens. That's a comforting thought the next time you're getting ready to get on the roller coaster!

Jay Leno

#8. Perhaps, in spite of all she had heard about the ideal of a perfect marriage, there was no such thing. Perhaps every marriage was a unique creation. It was a comforting thought. And it filled her with hope.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. He hurt everywhere, so at least he must be alive. Another comforting thought because, despite everything, he wanted to be alive. It was the business of living he wanted nothing to do with.

John Martel

#10. That all of God's men are immortal until God is through with them is a wonderful comforting thought for today. And when He is through with you, He will remove you from the earth.

J. Vernon McGee

#11. There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought

L.M. Montgomery

#12. And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me - I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.

Rachel Ward

#13. There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

Don Marquis

#14. I cannot help but find it telling that she successfully felled two grown men in a single day." Mater's eyes slid to Corbin's bruised face. "If I had to guess, I would say she has experience defending herself physically against men. Not a very comforting thought.

Sarah M. Eden

#15. It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.

Vanessa Minnillo

#16. 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

#17. I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

Sarah Dessen

#18. Life may be scary
But it's only temporary.
And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.

from: Antinatalism A Thought Experiment

Quentin S. Crisp

#19. Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

Stephen Jay Gould

#20. I was talking to a homeless man at the laundry mat recently, and he said that when we reduce Christian spirituality to math we defile the Holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting because I have never been good at math.

Donald Miller

#21. I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

Kristen Bell

#22. The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.

Hannah Harrington

#23. I hadn't thought of it before, but the Good Doctor is very much like water, fitting in wherever he needs to. Ever-present, but never obtrusive. Calming, comforting, yet inescapable.

Heather Day Gilbert

#24. The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

Margaret George

#25. The same thrust, pushing against a greatly reduced burden, would then yield acceleration that Lio had cheerfully described as 'near-fatal.' 'But it's okay,' he'd said, 'you'll black out before anything really bad happens to you.

Neal Stephenson

#26. Home is the one place in the world where you are safe from feeling put down or out, unentitled, or unwanted.

Cheryl Mendelson

#27. I was sort of lazy at school, but I realize I still have something to bring to the subject which is comforting. I feel I am not as stupid as I thought I was.

Michel Gondry

#28. On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

Henry David Thoreau

#29. If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive.
"I'm thirty-five," she said at last.

Garth Nix

#30. There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Angelina Jolie

#31. It was a rather dreadful thought but somehow comforting.

Dodie Smith

#32. When life events mimic shattered glass,
carefully locate the pieces then gently pick them up.

Gina Greenlee

#33. During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no need for him to start anything, that he had to live out his life without doing evil, without anxiety, and without wishing for anything.

Leo Tolstoy

#34. Whatever connection we thought we had before this ... it doesn't compare to this moment. No matter what happens between us in life, this moment has just merged pieces of our souls together. Well always have that, and in a way it's comforting to know.

Colleen Hoover

#35. He hadn't thought of Hanna that way before and for whatever reason,he found it comforting to see her in such a light - a bit of a villain in the good.

Melinda Michaels

#36. By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#37. But I think they aren't as hard to defeat as we once thought. They're not fighters."
"I'm sure that will be real comforting to all the dead people here," Tove said.

Amanda Hocking

#38. The need to protect her has grown into something fierce and possessive inside of me. I thought of her all the time, and all I could think was that I wanted her safe. I wanted her with me. I didn't want anyone else touching her or comforting her. Just me.

Abbi Glines

#39. When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word.

Mary E. DeMuth

#40. Some find freedom in comfort
others find comfort in freedom

Mie Hansson

#41. Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.

Albert Schweitzer

#42. She wanted to give him toast. The sort that had melted butter and a bit of honey spread on top. It was a stupid thought, but there was something comforting about toast.

Heather Dixon

#43. This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

Jonathan Franzen

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

Stephen King

#45. Of all the comforting objects in this world, few things are as reassuring and accepting as books.

Drea Damara

#46. He would live a small life, and instead of depressing him, the thought became comforting. For the first time, he no longer felt trapped. Instead, he felt safe. He

Brit Bennett

#47. Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#48. 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.

John Wyndham