Quotes About Comforts

#1. Say that he was right about how bad it was in the Soviet Union, but he just didn't understand the nice materialism of the West. Say that the Soviet Union was bad because the people were deprived of meaningless creature comforts, and that the West is good because the people are flooded with them.

Anthony Esolen

#2. All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.

Thomas A Kempis

#3. To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage." ~Samuel Johnson

Edward M. Hallowell

#4. Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

Samuel Johnson

#5. Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believing that we had ownership, that we could have done something to change the outcome. It's lazier than The Clapper.

Stephanie Klein

#6. In order to escape from this prison, one must learn not to come to an arrangement with its indisputable comforts.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#7. You can't keep rescuing me like this. You're supposed to be the angsty, surly cripple, and I'm supposed to be the one who comforts you and shows you life is still worth living.

Molly Mirren

#8. I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.

Grace Lee Boggs

#9. I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.

Ernie Pyle

#10. Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

Konosuke Matsushita

#11. It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home
perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.

Ben Robertson

#12. When you wake up from a nightmare, the reality comforts you. When you wake up from the best dream ever, reality is a burden, a slap-in-the-face reminder that you could feel this, you could have this, but you don't and you won't.

Karina Halle

#13. One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them.

Alice Munro

#14. The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

Laurence Sterne

#15. that life was full of small comforts which were all the time making for happiness, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate them.

Katrina Avilla Munichiello

#16. Europe I travelled third - and only once first, just to see what it was like - but there I noticed no such difference between the first and the third-classes. In South Africa third-class passengers are mostly Negroes, yet the third-class comforts are better there than here.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Muhammad

#18. We are all poor in respect to a thousand savage comforts, though surrounded by luxuries ... for our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

#20. We have filled our lives and our churches with more comforts for us, all while turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to abject poverty in others. We need our eyes opened to the implications of the gospel for how we live.

David Platt

#21. A mother comforts, a mother cleans. A mother gives when any reasonable person would deny. Life might affix any number of labels to Vera- Russian, pensioner, widow, daughter- but when she looked to her washed-out reflection in the bathroom mirror, she saw only Lydia's mother.

Anthony Marra

#22. Birds seem to be the happiest creatures on earth, yet they have none of what we call the comforts of life.

Olive Thorne Miller

#23. The music of the busy bee Is drowsy, and it comforts me; But, ah! 'tis quite another thing, When that same bee concludes to sting! Andrew Downing (nineteenth-century American horticulturalist)

Dave Goulson

#24. I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

Wendie Malick

#25. Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Oliver Goldsmith

#26. Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts.

Ayn Rand

#27. A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher

John Newton

#28. God is everything that is good, she writes. All life's pleasures and comforts are sacramental; they are God's hands touching us.

Julian Of Norwich

#29. I think all these great comforts that come from the human condition of trying to make things easier on ourselves also have these pitfalls, where things become so easy that we forget how enjoyable building a fence can be.

Nick Offerman

#30. Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.

George Mason

#31. The fewer one's comforts, the fewer one's needs; and the fewer one's needs, the greater one's happiness.

Jules Verne

#32. Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many. Truth is barbed: if it comforts, it lies. Truth is an armed dancer.

Robert Grudin

#33. It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages.

Robert Winston

#34. The word of God is the Christian soul's best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the mighty.

Wilfred Grenfell

#35. After years in the Chinese workforce, I had developed an emotional attachment to money. My earnings were my hard work and long hours; my savings were comforts deferred.

Hyeonseo Lee

#36. In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.

Eugene Linden

#37. Happiness does not completely depend on comforts or opulence. Even a pauper can be happier than a prince.

Ogwo David Emenike

#38. Scripture comforts me, and romance novels give me hope." "Oh yeah? Hope for what?" "Hope that I'll be doing more than quoting scripture with Ambrose Young in the very near future".

Amy Harmon

#39. What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.

Os Guinness

#40. 3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

Anonymous

#41. I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!

Mary Hays

#42. I shall always be depressed," Beckett concluded, "but what comforts me is the realization that I can now accept this dark side as the commanding side of my personality. In accepting it, I will make it work for me.

Mason Currey

#43. Music is my life. Music runs through my veins. Music inspires me. Music is a part of me. Music is all around us. Music soothes me. Music gives me hope when I lose faith. Music comforts me. Music is my refuge.

Demi Lovato

#44. The beast that was civilization ever faced forward, and in making its present world it devoured the world to come. It was an appalling truth that one's own children could be so callously sacrificed to immediate comforts, yet this was so and it had always been so.

Steven Erikson

#45. A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'

Nathaniel Philbrick

#46. Give up the lesser comforts for the greater happiness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#47. I go to bed with horror on my wings. In my pillow is sad comforts. Like my mother says, 'On essaye a s'y prendre, pi sa travaille pas' (We try to manage, and it turns out shit).

Jack Kerouac

#48. [regarding US conquest of the Philippines] I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines [ ... ] We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways.

Henry Adams

#49. Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

Lew Wallace

#50. But once you accept the fact that you have always been alone, and will always be, then your perspective can begin to change. You can become aware of the small kindnesses, the little comforts. Be grateful for them.

Linda Olsson

#51. You can't left your happiness depend on external factors.It comes from within you.That is the source of true happiness. Only then can you enjoy the pleasures and comforts of life. Only then can you notice the privilege of a such a life.

K.J. Kilton

#52. I'm not superstitious about good luck charms and all that. I don't have any ring or any tangible thing as a charm. But I like to have at least one of my parents with me during my shows. It gives me strength to find their faces ... or my brothers ... in the audience. It comforts me.

Shreya Ghoshal

#53. What vast additions to the Conveniences and Comforts of Living might Mankind have acquired, if the Money spent in Wars had been employ'd in Works of public utility!

Benjamin Franklin

#54. Now that's discrimination - when you look down your nose at the very men who fought to make sure you could still go to work in your tidy, warm office. That's the trouble with people - they cherish their comforts, but they don't want to know where they come from.

Jacqueline Winspear

#55. The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do ... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal ...

Ani DiFranco

#56. I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I mean that sincerely.

Lauryn Hill

#57. Father, forgive me," he thought, staring into the sky where the light of the sun stared back at him behind the clouds. "Truth does not care if it comforts her. But I do.

R. Lee Smith

#58. The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.

Anatoly Rybakov

#59. The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.

Francis Galton

#60. She awoke from a long childhood in which she had always been protected and surrounded by attention and comforts, with no responsibilities.

Isabel Allende

#61. She was so much better at being alone; being alone came more naturally to her. She led a life of deliberate solitude, and if occasional loneliness crept in, she knew how to work her way out of that particular divot. Or even better, how to sink in and absorb its particular comforts.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#62. It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

John Piper

#63. The exchange of money for my willing participation was served on a silver platter, requiring nothing more than the abandonment of my principles and the departure of virtue, which fell in between the cracks of insignificance, given in trade for the simple comforts I once knew. - from "Plight" 2015

Don Swann II

#64. I love my creature comforts.

Stephen Graham

#65. I was raised with a strong belief in prayer. And that's never really left me. I find it great to close your eyes, breathe, and just talk to the universe. It really comforts me.

Kevin Daniels

#66. Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.

Raymond Loewy

#67. Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

Thomas Jefferson

#68. Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

Benjamin Franklin

#69. We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.

Richard Cecil

#70. These men had not accepted the fact that culture and weaponry, or even culture and plumbing are not synonymous, and while a society may lag a hundred years behind in comforts and ethics, it may catch up in hardware in a human lifetime.

T.R. Fehrenbach

#71. They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

Matthew Henry

#72. Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#73. You must learn to make your evils your great good; and to spin comforts, peace, joy, communion with Christ, out of your troubles, which are Christ's wooers, sent to speak for you from Himself.

Samuel Rutherford

#74. Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, - that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

Louisa May Alcott

#75. Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

Pete Earley

#76. The gospel shall be victorious. This greatly comforts and refreshes me.

John Owen

#77. Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Dalai Lama

#78. Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

Christopher Love

#79. Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

Ernest Rutherford

#80. O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, ... I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

William Cowper

#81. England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.

Sylvia Plath

#82. It makes me very nervous and poorly,to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else. However, your coming just at this time is the greatest of comforts, and I am very glad to hear what you tell us, of long sleeves.

Jane Austen

#83. Be someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares, and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

Ralph Marston

#84. The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.

Taya Kyle

#85. Many like to hear of the love of Christ, but not of loving their enemies; they like the comforts of the word, but not its reproofs.

Thomas Watson

#86. Your power stations, your cars, your creature comforts. Well, you lived too long. The bill's due. Today.

David Mitchell

#87. But odd as his family might be, they were nothing compared to this. In fact, that was one of the great comforts of his job. At least his family compared well to people who actually killed each other, rather than just thought about it.

Louise Penny

#88. The way of painful duty is the way of fullest comfort. Christ carrieth all our comforts in his hand : if we are out of that way where Christ is to be met, we are out of the way where comfort is to be had (312).

Richard Baxter

#89. You need to think about the system that you live in and the comforts that you have. But the comforts that you have that are causing the discomforts of a massive amount of people around the world.

Lupe Fiasco

#90. Once baptized, we then receive the Holy Ghost, a special gift from God, which is priceless beyond expression. The Holy Ghost bears witness of the Father and the Son and guides us to all truth and comforts us and gives us peace for the rest of our lives.

Hartman Rector Jr.

#91. You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

Judith Guest

#92. What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Robert Browning

#93. The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today's comforts for tomorrow's opportunities.

Vironika Tugaleva

#94. Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.

Henry David Thoreau

#95. While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.

Frederick Lenz

#96. History comforts the dull-witted,"" the young Malazan said.
Beneth barked a laugh as he reached the gate. "And whose words are those, Pella? Not yours."
The guard's brows rose, then shrugged. "I forget you're Korelri sometimes, Beneth. Those words? Emperor Kellanved.

Steven Erikson

#97. It seemed to me that in this confluence of cultures we had acquired one another's superstitions without necessarily any of their comforts.

Yangsze Choo

#98. Time evaporate, money is always needed, comforts found where they were not expected and excitement dug up in barren ground.

Susan Sontag

#99. Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition ...

Amelia E. Barr

#100. The media not only fans our fears, it comforts us in our hubris. Nearly every scare story comes with a Message: You can take control. You can do something to keep bad things from happening to your children and to keep life from throwing you curveballs.

Judith Warner