Top 100 Quotes About Comfort
#1. But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?
Franz Kafka
#2. There is a great degree of comfort with your family when you're on a TV show.
Gillian Jacobs
#3. Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has offered me great comfort.
Ruth Reichl
#4. Comfort makes fools of us that way, and a kid gets faith back quick.
Mary Karr
#5. [The Universe] does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil and good is petty before nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that can not be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
Vernor Vinge
#6. But my core belief - that no matter what happens, God is with me - never wavers. And it's a great comfort to know that once you turn your life over to him, you never have to face anything alone again. He
Irene Hannon
#7. Our blood and their orders. We prepare this land for Colors that have never shed sweat for us, Colors that sit in comfort on their thrones on distant Earth, Colors that have never been to Mars. Is that something to live for?
Pierce Brown
#8. Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.
Sathya Sai Baba
#9. The love between us is fire and ice. It's loss, and it's redemption. It's pain, and it's comfort. It is everything.
Callie Hart
#10. I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.
Erwin McManus
#11. Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
Ann Voskamp
#12. Besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.
Thomas Jefferson
#13. Vulnerability brings honesty. We become most honest with ourselves when we are faced with real fear around a situation or an outcome. Yet many still stay in their comfort zone, listening to their own excuses and lies.
Tony Curl
#14. 3For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
Anonymous
#15. All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
Pat Nixon
#16. Clean up your comfort zone and move out so you can move on.
Toni Sorenson
#17. Christ provides us with settings that promise stillness. He guides us into havens that encourage comfort. He desires us to seek and secure moments of rest so that our souls might be renewed.
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#18. Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#19. Planck length and Planck time had always looked a bit too much like pixel dimensions for comfort.
Peter Watts
#20. Whatever might happen in life, whether I liked it or didn't like it, I could know one thing for sure: it would change. There was absolute certainty in uncertainty, in some ways an enormous comfort.
Steph Davis
#21. After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of them would come. So close were we, the seven of us, that no childhood injury went unnoticed, no slight, real or imagined, went unaddressed, no hurt was endured without comfort.
Juliet Marillier
#22. The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.
Richard Sharp
#23. Somehow I always feel better with her. It's as if she can completely sympathize with my thoughts and help me channel them away, and I can always take comfort in her lovely face.
Marie Lu
#24. In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#25. Give them wisdom and devotion in the ordering of their common life, that each may be to the other a strength in need, a counselor in perplexity, a comfort in sorrow, and a companion in joy.
Julia Spencer-Fleming
#26. Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.
Margaret Mitchell
#27. By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
Alan Watts
#28. Didn't she remember that being single is more than just following your whims - that it also means having nobody to help you make difficult decisions, or comfort you at the end of a bad week?
Kate Bolick
#29. If God gives you comfort, extend a comforting hand unto others. If God saves you, extend a saving hand unto others
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#30. People find hope, comfort, or confidence in making the sign of the cross or not walking under a ladder, just as you find hope and confidence in offering a pennant to the witch. Magic exists in the minds of those who believe in it, not in its actual influence on reality.
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
#31. Our closeness to the Lord will, in great measure, determine the peace and comfort and renewed strength that we feel as we invite the Spirit into our lives.
Robert E. Wells
#32. There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort
Dalai Lama
#33. One of the hardest things about losing someone that you love is that you have to allow yourself to seek and accept comfort in other areas of your life
Meg Donohue
#34. The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.
Howard Storm
#35. I hope that your example attracts many souls to the adoration of Jesus Christ who is present on the altar to be of comfort and hope to those who confide in him with faith and love; they look on him as the Emmanuel, God with us, who wished to dwell amongst us: his heart in our heart
Pope John Paul II
#36. I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.
Robert Plant
#37. The startling thing about her simplifying instinct was that the more she did away with fashion in search for comfort and the more she passed over conventions as she obeyed spontaneity, the more disturbing her incredible beauty became and the more provocative she become to men.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#38. Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.
David Bowie
#39. When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.
Lemony Snicket
#40. It may be small comfort, but I believe Rafe doesn't want to kill you."
A light laugh escaped her lips. "Actually, that is a substantial comfort.
Brooklyn Ann
#41. Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.
Robert Kiyosaki
#42. Moments are best when everyone can take a moment to remember to be grateful for their life and those who cherish theirs. It ought not to take a tragedy to awaken someone to truly value what he/she has and the people who have always been there to bring comfort every day.
Steven Cuoco
#43. I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much."
"But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly.
I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?
Robin McKinley
#45. Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
Anne Tyler
#46. I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.
Sharon Creech
#47. First, you're going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.
Phillip C. McGraw
#48. The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#49. My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.
Alex Honnold
#51. I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.
Elliott Smith
#52. It's kind of like religion. It gives us comfort to believe we have defined something that is, by its very nature, indefinable. As to whether or not we've gotten it right, well, it's all a matter of faith.
Neal Shusterman
#53. Comfort, support, and care are essential in maintaining and improving an individual's mental efficiency, in part because they have important physiological calming effects (Schore, 1994; 2003b), and favorable effects on the immune system.
Onno Van Der Hart
#54. Walking next to Talent, she felt the singular, cozy comfort that steals upon one who is with a good friend.
Kristen Callihan
#55. I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports.
Julianne Moore
#56. In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.
Philip Sidney
#57. Bad things bring out the real you; the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#58. Being thoughtful about the comfort and needs of the people who work in your home is a characteristic of a great Home Care CEO.
Charisse Montgomery
#59. I began by working in a study in an attic, but for many years, I've used a small room in a library. What matters to me isn't decor or comfort but only quiet. I need to hear the rhythms of phrases, the music of sentences. Any place that allows me to do that is good enough.
Steven Millhauser
#60. Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.
Thomas Jefferson
#61. I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#62. Memories last forever in those years you both shared, may you find peace and love and comfort from all those who care.
Susan Smith
#63. God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another's burdens; for no man is without fault, no man without his burden, no man sufficient of himself, no man wise enough of himself; but we ought to bear with one another, comfort one another, help, instruct, and admonish one another.
Thomas A Kempis
#64. Finding joy in times of pain begins with understanding that true joy is rooted in God. Thus, keeping one's relationship with God at the center of one's life is essential to discovering areas of joy, comfort and solace.
James Martin
#65. [Angels] guide, comfort, and provide for the people of God in the midst of suffering and persecution.
Billy Graham
#66. Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.
Peter Cameron
#68. Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#69. To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.
Robert Heilbroner
#70. God is the Father who is full of mercy. God is the Father who is full of comfort. That is the kind of relationship he offers to you.
Rick Warren
#71. See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth and sanctifieth to it; Christ himself executeth the office of a Mediator. Our redemption is founded upon the joint agreement of all three persons of the Trinity.
Richard Sibbes
#72. Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.
Orrin Woodward
#73. Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort is not all that comfortable, even if they see clearly want for something better.
Donald Miller
#74. Anyone who has ever been in love, truly, magnificently in love, knows that it is torture. It is ugly and messy and brings out the absolute worst along with the best in you. It hurts because it forces you to confront every aspect of yourself. It forces you out of your comfort zone.
Jessica Gadziala
#76. There is nothing like stying at home for real comfort
Jane Austen
#77. O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on.
Charles Spurgeon
#78. A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.
Jean De La Bruyere
#79. When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
Banana Yoshimoto
#80. We like talking so much because we hope by our conversations to gain some mutual comfort, and because we seek to refresh our wearied spirits by variety of thoughts.
Anonymous
#82. If you only write what you know, you'll never know anything else. If you only write what you see you'll never see anything else. In order to experience new things you must always step outside of your comfort zone, or your live you life never knowing anything new
Adam Snowflake
#83. I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about.
Joel Osteen
#84. We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
Frank Clark
#85. Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don't know, comfort. The sense you're where you're supposed to be, with someone you're supposed to be with.
John Scalzi
#86. Let me say that for comfort, there is no thought more full of sweetness than that of an eternal God engaged in Christ Jesus to His people; to love, and bless, and save them all. One Who has made them the distinguished objects of His discriminating regard from all eternity, it is the eternal God.
Charles Spurgeon
#87. I live on in the sweetness of old days
with strangers who build new dwellings
on blue hills up to the edge of the sky,
I talk softly with the captured trees
and comfort them sometimes.
How slowly time consumes the core of things,
and soundlessly treads fate's heavy heel.
Edith Sodergran
#88. Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?
Tommy Douglas
#89. I could be worse, you know."
"How?" I asked, teasing.
"I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse."
"Sounds unsanitary," I said.
John Green
#90. We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
#91. A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.
B.F. Skinner
#92. Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.
Thomas Tusser
#93. When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Malcolm Forbes
#94. Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by the wisdom of God.
Mary C. Neal
#95. But everything's always been fucked up. Since the dawn of time. That's why people find each other. For comfort. For shelter. They find their own little crevice in the world, shielded from all the horror.
Drew Magary
#96. It wasn't until the jet engine came into being and that engine was coupled with special airplane designs - such as the swept wing - that airplanes finally achieved a high enough work capability, efficiency and comfort level to allow air transportation to really take off.
Joe Sutter
#97. A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#98. Words have power, for better or worse.
Like the smell of fresh rain on cut grass,
Or the stench of a decaying corpse,
Like the soft comfort of a warm blanket on your shoulders,
Or the agony of a dagger splitting your chest in two.
Use them wisely.
David Estes
#99. I don't really have much to prove. I can easily go in a comfort zone, make two films a year, hype them because I've signed them as a star, make them cheap and they will be big hits.
Shah Rukh Khan
#100. Were uproariously demanding relief from their intolerable miseries - in this Potemkin sideshow there prevailed a preposterous and mendacious comfort.
Stefan Zweig