Top 26 False Comfort Quotes
#1. It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
John Ortberg
#2. You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.
Robin Hobb
#3. I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
Christy Turlington
#4. Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the Kellogg's Pop-Tarts box that says, Warning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated.
Tom Vanderbilt
#5. God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
John Donne
#6. To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.
Francis Chan
#8. There will be no going back to the era before September 11th, 2001, to false comfort in a dangerous world.
George W. Bush
#9. Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
Sophocles
#10. Never question yourself to satisfy the comfort of those living blindly by the false masks of life.
Nikki Rowe
#11. Seek comfort in the warmth of the morality of your choosing. Not in the depravity and fear of lost causes, in which you should turn away, before it sees you, as well.
- Plight, 2015
Don Swann II
#12. Pain then, if one could have faith in something greater than himself, might be a path to experiencing a meaning beyond the false gratification of personal comfort.
Donald Miller
#14. Paper Towns for a Paper Girl, who wants to think and read clearly
John Green
#15. At that time, she had worn the scarf as a testament to her faith. Her decision was a voluntary act. When the revolution forced the scarf on others, her action became meaningless.
Azar Nafisi
#16. In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
Johannes Tauler
#17. Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.
Dan Simmons
#18. Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.
Nate Holland
#19. If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.
Sallie Krawcheck
#20. The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything - except the truth.
Rick Riordan
#21. The act of eating was a comfort to his shrunken belly, although a false one - the
Sara Pennypacker
#22. Over the last several days, I'd done a fair amount of practiced focusing on my present state of "lesness" - homelessness, joblessness and relationshiplessness. Less was not more. Less was an unstable, uncomfortable place to be.
Penny Reid
#23. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.
G.K. Chesterton
#24. Here too it's masquerade, I find:
As everywhere, the dance of mind.
I grasped a lovely masked procession,
And caught things from a horror show ...
I'd gladly settle for a false impression,
If it would last a little longer, though.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#25. When the time comes, I'll kill him in your place.
Tooru Hayama
#26. I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.
John Lennon
