Comfort Quotes - page 7

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest. (Winston Churchill)
How sad, ye gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps. You will know it when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it too when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; it's mists, it's swamps and it's rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
What the English call "comfortable” is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense, that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach him dignity morals manners and human comfort, she can delicatly and dangerously bedizen the rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell. View quote
Robert Bridges
None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We are able to breathe, drink, and eat in comfort because millions of organisms and hundreds of processes are operating to maintain a liveable environment, but we tend to take nature's services for granted because we don't pay money for most of them. View quote
Eugene Odum
You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
The modern dogma is comfort at any cost. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. View quote
Finley Peter Dunne
The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?".... I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father. (Abraham Verghese)
Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is. View quote
Anna Sewell
Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy. View quote
Melina Marchetta
But grieving people are selfish. They won't let you comfort them and they say you don't understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you've been functional to them. View quote
Melina Marchetta
I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone. View quote
Natalie Dormer
As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope. View quote
Annette Funicello
Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort. View quote
Richard Yates
As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal. View quote
Robin S. Sharma
I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies. View quote
Roger Moore
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me. View quote
Susanna Clarke
I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort. (Walter Hill)
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. View quote
Helen Gurley Brown
There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed. View quote
Hubert Selby Jr.
I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing. View quote
Ashton Kutcher
I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone. View quote
Brian Grazer