Top 100 Quotes About Comfort
#2. After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without the comfort of family or friends, Whitman wrote, nothing of ordinary misfortune seems as it used to.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#3. You have it in your power greatly to promote my happiness by your good conduct, and greatly to destroy my comfort and peace by ill conduct.
Salmon P. Chase
#4. Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.
J.C. Ryle
#5. I took comfort that its IQ, while no doubt high enough to allow it to run for elective office, seemed to be only a fraction of mine.
Dean Koontz
#6. There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
John Vianney
#7. Whenever there's a nude scene, it's always uneasy. You're not in the comfort of your own home with your significant other.
Laura Prepon
#8. Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.
Larry Niven
#9. There was no one to comfort the children, no one to embrace them, no one to love them. Care and control were what the dormitories were all about, not love and affection.
Ruth Hegarty
#10. There always had to be a survivor. Maybe this simply spoke to the optimism of the men writing those screenplays; even with an uncomfortable sci fi plot they had to subconsciously comfort themselves by thinking that at least a hundred people would survive.
Someone has to survive
Chris Dietzel
#11. The only thing money really buys? ... Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money.
Louise Penny
#12. Christ always calls us to life and constantly to greater joy, but rarely does He call us to comfort.
Mark Hart
#13. Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#14. The brilliance of enslaving the spirit is that it is an invisible prison from which the inmate appears to derive some comfort.
Alice Walker
#15. Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don't live near a train track, it's hard to squash a penny that way, and if you live in an apartment in New York City, it may be difficult to get to drive a car.
Gever Tulley
#16. Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in.
Paul Auster
#17. Dedication
To anyone who has ever found comfort in oblivion.
Courtney Cole
#18. Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.
Matthew Nable
#19. She ate toast in bed, then reread a favorite book, taking comfort from a story where she knew the outcome would be good and just and right.
Sarah Mayberry
#20. We don't "crave" animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
#21. What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world.
Corrie Ten Boom
#22. The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love and comfort to yourself and the society.
Amit Ray
#23. Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the conclusion that this is very much his problem.
John Cleese
#24. One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.
Sarah Glidden
#25. Comfort is key. I need to make sure the cleat first my foot perfectly. Weight is important, too.
Amy Rodriguez
#26. The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.
Simon Barnes
#27. I eat soup noodles for comfort. In fact, noodles of any kind. It's a food that is very easy to eat; it's very soothing and comfortable, too. If I could choose any, I'd say buckwheat was my favourite: it has a very good flavour and is healthy, too.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#28. The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
Thomas Carlyle
#29. I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where all the dudes wear Carhartt and all the women can put on a beautiful sweater with a snowman applique and nobody raises an eyebrow.
Hilarie Burton
#30. Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.
Tryon Edwards
#31. Sometimes the most valuable of all talents is to be able not to seek resolution; to notice the craving for completeness or certainty or comfort, and not to feel compelled to follow where it leads.
Oliver Burkeman
#32. A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make your soul soar.
Rob Bell
#33. I think leather pants are just better than jeans onstage; they give the performance a nice attitude, and they are also shockingly comfortable. Comfort is key.
Jessie Baylin
#34. To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.
Lily Collins
#35. Today I choose to step outside of my comfort zone into my miracle.
Suzette Webb
#36. 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
#37. I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over comfort.
Russell Smith
#38. I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.
John Steinbeck
#39. Be collected.
No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart
There's no harm done.
William Shakespeare
#40. It was funny how people who had nothing would offer everything to those in need, and people who had comfort scarcely offered it to people who needed it.
Belle Aurora
#42. The real comfort is that the history of the world contains so much grief that my small griefs are edged out, and are only cinders at the borders of the fire. I am saying this again because I want it to be true.
Sebastian Barry
#43. The Lord's way is the only way for us to experience enduring happiness. His way brings sustained comfort to our souls and perennial peace to our homes.
Russell M. Nelson
#45. You have no idea how to comfort anyone, do you? (Astrid)
In case you haven't noticed, princess, social skills aren't my forte. Hell, you're lucky I'm housebroke. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#46. I wish I could help you" I whisper.
You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me.
Simone Elkeles
#47. A journey is not a cure. It brings an illusion, only, of change, and becomes at best a spartan comfort
Colin Thubron
#48. Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency; you become irrelevant in each other's lives. We call this phenomenon
'growing apart'.
Steve Maraboli
#49. Books had always been a comfort to me, an escape from reality when reality got to be too real.
Julie Fisher
#50. Pickpocket is a sink-or-swim profession, not something that can be taught in the comfort of your living room.
Martyn V. Halm
#51. She had kept well behind the safety barrier her entire life, but now she was standing there at the edge of the precipice for the very first time, fumbling blindly with the realization that there were other ways to live, at how intense and rich life could be.
Katarina Bivald
#52. Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#53. The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Khalil Gibran
#54. It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
George Santayana
#55. The more chances you get, the more comfortable you feel. I?m ready to go out there if something happens. I?ll feel comfortable if I am ever called on.
Doug Flutie
#56. My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the kitchen always had pots cooking with the lids were always bump, bump, bump, bump, bubbling, you know?
Kay Robertson
#57. Comfort is your biggest trap and coming out of comfort zone your biggest challenge.
Manoj Arora
#58. The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it's about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.
Ed Stetzer
#59. ["Ambition has been so strong as to make very miserable men take comfort that they were supreme in misery;
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#60. There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.
Daniel Radcliffe
#61. Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
Kahlil Gibran
#62. The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.
Heinrich Heine
#63. The big white house glowed on the hill above them, tranquil in the afternoon light, the big red spruce behind it a looming but benign presence; not for the first time, he felt that the tree was somehow guarding the house - and in his present fragile mental state, found that notion a comfort.
Diana Gabaldon
#64. A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.
Patricia Hampl
#65. For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive.
Christian Lacroix
#66. I like the cuts - they comfort me - I can't lie.
Emma Forrest
#67. Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.
Jane Austen
#68. This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.
Johnny Rich
#69. If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection.
Ellen Swallow Richards
#70. And if it is for your comfort to pour your darkness into space, it is also for your delight to pour forth the dawning of your heart.
Kahlil Gibran
#72. The self is a
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort
Ulf Wolf
#73. When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.
Kristen Wiig
#74. Once discover comfort, and there is no turning back.
Mason Cooley
#75. God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.
Jim George
#76. We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
Matthew Simpson
#77. The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself. When you dare to get out of your circle of comfort and explore the unknown, you start to liberate your true human potential.
Robin S. Sharma
#79. This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.
Chuck Palahniuk
#80. We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden
that is human sympathy.
Frederic Farrar
#81. People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.
Brian Eno
#82. You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate ... On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal."
"I think that's some kind of rule for the universe.
John Barnes
#83. Blessed be His name that He has arranged that one Person of the Sacred Trinity should undertake this office of Comforter, for no man could ever perform its duties. We might as well hope to be the Savior as to be the Comforter of the heartbroken!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#84. I can't compare the lives I could have lived. One would have been comfort and security. But the other ... " She sighs. "It was the most love and the most pain and the most wonder I could have ever known.
Carrie Ryan
#85. Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.
Sandra Bernhard
#86. I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.
Nancy Reagan
#87. Because what else are we going to do? Say no? Say no to an opportunity that may be slightly out of our comfort zone? Quiet our voice because we are worried it is not perfect? I believe great people do things before they are ready.
Amy Poehler
#88. As for my personal style, I like comfort a lot, like jeans and T-shirts. Having been a trainer for so long, I spend a lot of my days in tank tops, shorts, and T-shirts. Still, I do like the occasions where I get to wear suits and make that a thing.
Matt McGorry
#89. A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
William Penn
#90. To maintain discipline in the military, it must have been necessary at that time. For soldiers who risked their lives in circumstances where bullets are flying around like rain and wind, if you want them to get some rest, a comfort women system was necessary. That's clear to anyone.
Toru Hashimoto
#91. Before you can brighten the corner where you are, you must first develop dislike for the initial dull corner you once endured. You can't change what you are comfortable with.
Israelmore Ayivor
#92. A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
Nancy Gibbs
#93. Every day, it's a different country, different time zone. If you asked me where home was, I've never felt like I've had that. My idea of comfort is to leave a place. Two weeks is sort of my max.
Alison Mosshart
#94. See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#95. By talking others out of their dreams, critical people excuse themselves for staying in their comfort zones.
John C. Maxwell
#96. For every thing you find that's of comfort...there are two with the power to hurt.
Stephen King
#97. Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.
John Updike
#98. There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
Criss Jami
#99. When two people have been married for years they seem to become unconscious of each other's bodily presence so that they move as if alone, speak aloud things which they do not expect to be answered, and in general seem to experience all the comfort of solitude without its loneliness.
Virginia Woolf
#100. All mankind is crying out for guidance, for comfort, for peace.
Billy Graham
