Comforting Quotes

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. (Woody Allen)
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal. View quote
Helen Keller
Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt everything, and to doubt it in a part of the mind that has no words to answer the question, where the comforting promises you make yourself are neither believed nor even really understood. View quote
Michael Marshall Smith
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. View quote
Felix Adler
Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion? View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. View quote
Alice Walker
I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting. View quote
Teri Garr
Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continual comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them. (George Santayana)
[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. ... The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. ... The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it. View quote
Terry Gilliam
The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it's comforting; because it's so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so. View quote
Michael Lewis (author)
There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble. View quote
Don Marquis
I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping something might improve if I viewed all sides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and be able use one's prejudice as an excuse. View quote
Karl Kraus
I stole a lot when I was a kid, but I wouldn't steal one candy; I'd take the whole carton. I also used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house. View quote
Jared Leto
I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once. View quote
Sarah Dessen
The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric. View quote
Peter Greenaway
Learning something new means you have to abandon, for a little while at least, the familiar and comforting. I happen to like this feeling. I remind myself that tomorrow, I will be someone who didn't exist yesterday. View quote
Nick Stone
That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.' (Danger) (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
By nature, your soul is soft, gentle, loving and kind. It is forgiving, peaceful, and humble. Confident and comforting in times of despair, your soul is strong, focused, and determined in the mission called life. View quote
Debbie Ford
If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it. View quote
David Levithan
Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting. View quote
Jane Smiley
I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion. View quote
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