Comfort Quotes

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. (Simone de Beauvoir)
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. View quote
Michael Jackson
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap. View quote
Ani DiFranco
The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. View quote
George Eliot
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. View quote
Marguerite Duras
You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect. (Ernest Renan)
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. View quote
Washington Irving
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. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. View quote
Iris Murdoch
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. View quote
James Herriot
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. View quote
Jane Austen
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. View quote
Jean Cocteau
I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild. View quote
Tom Felton
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. View quote
Amy Bloom
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