Comfort Quotes - Page 5

• O my good lord, that comfort comes too late,
  'Tis like a pardon after execution.
  That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me;
  But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Past, Execution

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.384, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who had ever cried for him

  Nalini Singh

  World, Persons, Cried

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Heart of Obsidian: A Psy-Changeling Novel”, p.224, Penguin

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• There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Sorrow

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Fear and Trembling”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Condolences, Sight

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Dog, Eye, Old Friends

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Wasteland”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

  Aristotle

  Life, Friendship, True Friend

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Simple, Earth, Fellowship

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 3, l. 1121

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• If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

  John Bunyan

  Peace, Feet, Mind

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• Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

  Alice Walker

  Sister, Inspiring, Sibling

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• I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Taken, Fate, Knowing

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

  Banksy

  Art, Should, Disturbed

  "Banksy Sells Works to Unsuspecting Tourists for Total of 420 Bucks, Shakes Very Foundation of Art" by Scott Christian, www.gq.com. October 14, 2013.

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• Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  "Helen Gurley Brown on Money, Sex and Having It All" by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2012.

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• The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

  David Brainerd

  Spiritual, Hard Times, Space

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.122

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• Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

  Wayne Coyne

  Sadness, Share, Metaphysical

  "Straight from the Lip". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2003.

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• Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

  Richard Pryor

  Islands, Half, Want

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• The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

  John Ralston Saul

  Jobs, Expression, Rude

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Air, Individuality, Increase

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XXI, 1840.

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• I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Men, Wife

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

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• If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Growing, Zone

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Aug 07, 2016

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• A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Wise, Witty, Business

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• Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

  Louis Nizer

  Inspirational, Educational, Reality

  Louis Nizer (2015). “My Life in Court”, p.254, Ravenio Books

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• But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

  Frank Langella

  Thinking, Water, Reason

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• An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

  Ouida

  Husband, Easy, Indispensable

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.388, Ouida

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• We all have something to offer. It's so important to be able to step out of our comfort zone and share the benefit of our experience with others who are trying to find their way. You can make a real difference and have real impact. I haven't experienced anything more satisfying than that.

  David Gregory

  Real, Differences, Impact

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