Comforting Quotes - Page 10

• Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.2791, e-artnow

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• Halt shook his head. "You warriors don't do much geography in Battleschool, do you?" Horace shrugged. "We're not big on that sort of thing. We wait for our leader to point to an enemy and say, 'Go whack him.' We leave geography and such to Rangers. We like you to feel superior." "Go whack him, indeed," Halt said. "It must be comforting to lead such an uncomplicated life.

  John Flanagan

  Warrior, Leader, Waiting

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• There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hands, Dying, Rue

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.

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• If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last.

  Garth Nix

  Dog, Unattractive, Lasts

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• If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Religious, Long, Want

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.338, Penguin

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• As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep

  Edith Wharton

  Wife, Long, House

  Edith Wharton (2006). “The Age of Innocence”, p.148, OUP Oxford

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• He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Dental, Reassuring

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• This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Contradictory, Chosen, Collections

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.432, Macmillan

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• It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate.

  Herb Ritts

  Appreciate, Rooms, Location

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• God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience God's love will be exhausted long before God's capacity to give it is strained. The picture of having Christ dwell inside us by faith presents us with compelling and comforting possibilities. What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  Max Lucado (2007). “Book of Ephesians: Where You Belong”, p.59, Harper Collins

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• I feel the calmest when I'm drawing or when I'm creating images. I love connecting the mind with the hand and producing something - that is very comforting and centering for me.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Hands, Drawing, Creating

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Sweet, New York, Should Have

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life and says: 'you are a human person: important, mysterious, infinitely precious, what you have to say is important because it flows from a humn person; in you there are those seeds of the infinite, those germs of love... of beauty which must rise from the earth of your misery so humanity be fulfilled. If you do not rise then something will be missing... Rise again because we all need you... be loved beloved.'

  Jean Vanier

  Judging, Missing, Humanity

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• I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

  Parker J. Palmer

  Death, Real, New Life

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring”, Jossey-Bass

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• You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of the room, and then you're gone. With a novel you move into town and stay for a long time. That's both comforting and terrifying.

  Anna Quindlen

  Moving, Long, Gone

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Religion, Finals, Facts

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.263, Ballantine Books

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• I think as humans we're nostalgic creatures and that's what we do. We go back to things that have a semblance of something comforting, or enough time passes that it seems cool again, or maybe it's something that some people didn't even experience.

  Jeremy Scott

  Thinking, People, Enough

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if I have to.

  Molly Ringwald

  Writing, Bed, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like that cartoons are now not only animated drawings, they are a way of doing something: 'That song sounds very cartoony', or 'He has a cartoon face'. Like the word 'poetic', which usually means something different than a poem. But most of all cartoons are comforting, that's the real reason I need them.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Song, Real, Mean

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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• She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Mother, Thinking, Nurse

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Enchanted April”, p.25, Jester House Publishing

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• I try to see the dark and light in everything. This is my way of comforting myself when I am dealing with those emotions.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Dark, Light, Trying

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• Greasy food is so comforting when you are hungover.

  Anne Lamott

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Angels will frequently - even when they're comforting us with good news - touch the awe of God's eternal presence and drive us to our knees before our God of glory.

  Scot McKnight

  Angel, News, Knees

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• It's easy, almost comforting, to dismiss Trumpism as the cry of laid-off men in rust-belt states shaking their wrinkled fists at the juggernaut of modernity.

  Fraser Nelson

  Men, Rust, Fists

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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