Quotes About Comforting Yourself

#1. It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

Jon Meacham

#2. She closed her eyes, listening to the sound of his heartbeat. She always found its rhythm comforting.

Sylvain Reynard

#3. What can I say? You bring out the devil in me."

"That's not a comforting thing to tell a pastor's daughter,

Suzanne Young

#4. If it weren't for you, mornings wouldn't be so comforting - slippers wouldn't scrape through the rooms of my heart ...

John Geddes

#5. Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes.
Thy friends do stand by thee ... '
-Jesus the Christ

Joseph Smith Jr.

#6. Never underestimate the lingering effects of a dash of spontaneous comfort.

Gina Greenlee

#7. The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.

Joseph Sobran

#8. But - yeah, that was real comforting. Give the Sick Idiot a serious disease pamphlet, then send her home. Makes sense. They

Ashley Boynes-Shuck

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

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#10. All that had been trivial, that had been comforting and familiar and safe, now seemed to be strapped with explosives.

Louise Penny

#11. There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

Sue Miller

#12. I like plans. They create a comforting illusion of sanity and order.

Tim Pratt

#13. 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

#14. Then he noticed her boys. They were standing side by side at the edge of the driveway, their plastic guns still in their hands and their faces pale and forlorn beneath the toy helmets, his own Tony, God bless him, with a comforting arm around each.

Alice McDermott

#15. There's something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There's also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didn't turn out half bad either.

Vicki Pettersson

#16. She has a scent that is familiar and comforting, like all the things you wish you could take with you on your travels to make you feel less alone.

Libba Bray

#17. Maybe your empathy's just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the other person feels but you're only feeling yourself, maybe you're even worst than me. Or maybe we're all just guessing.

Peter Watts

#18. We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!

Debbie Macomber

#19. Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant judge you for it. If you live it long enough it becomes an addiction, like all things, too much of it and you will go insane but not enough of it will also send you there.n

Nikki Rowe

#20. There is nothing more comforting than hearing lyrics to a song you could've written yourself.

Hilary Wynne

#21. It's always comforting to tell yourself things are going to be alright, because even if a part of you senses that you're lying, it's comforting to shut it out- shut out reality and pretend- because pretending is nice.

Emma Abdullah

#22. The rooms that are lived in are the ones we find most comforting.

Alexandra Stoddard

#23. 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

#24. She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#25. I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any responsibility for your own happiness. If a relationship doesn't work out
whoops! It wasn't meant to be. Fuck meant to be.

Anna Jarzab

#26. Darkness swallows everything, even pain. That's what makes it so tempting. Comforting. It disguises weakness as strength.

C.M. Rayne

#27. She closed her eyes for a moment, remembering how it had felt to see Sir Gerek appear, reaching down and pulling her up. She sighed deeply. His arms were so strong and comforting around her, holding her tight against his broad chest. She drew in a hiccupped breath, a cross between a laugh and a sob.

Melanie Dickerson

#28. [T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants
neither alcohol nor meat
are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.

Angela Carter

#29. No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.

Jacques Ellul

#30. There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.

Jane Kaczmarek

#31. Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation - a gnawing familiarity - that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.

Kate Bernheimer

#32. I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing (to check facts, or so on). But I think it's also because I find the possibility of distraction comforting.

James Surowiecki

#33. As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's comforting to know my place in the world.

Thomm Quackenbush

#34. A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

Alan Moore

#35. But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

Dean Koontz

#36. His long arms stretch out like comforting pillars, supporting my whole being in his embrace.

Dee Lestari

#37. Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.

Haruki Murakami

#38. Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having been allotted only one life, I find that writing oneself into a fictional world is even more comforting.

Norman Lock

#39. Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail.

Maija Haavisto

#40. Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

Jane Smiley

#41. My people do, I do not. Gods are a myth, a comforting story for children." "Such

Anthony Ryan

#42. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

Patrick Ness