Comforting Quotes - Page 14

• There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

  Don Marquis

  Time, Trouble, Times Of Trouble

  'archy does his part' (1935) 'comforting thoughts'

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• It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It's loss would create a very large black hole.

  Wayne Coyne

  Loss, Black, Magazines

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• [David Tennant's] Doctor has such humanity, he seems to understand us and he's very warm, so he's a comforting Doctor to be with, and he enables us to be slightly scarier than we had been.

  Russell T Davies

  Doctors, Humanity, Seems

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• But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.

  Erica Jong

  Atheist, Atheism, Care

  Erica Jong (2013). “Sappho's Leap: A Novel”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.

  Beth Moore

  Missing, Matter, Habitual

  Beth Moore (2015). “Believing God”, p.162, B&H Publishing Group

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• We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

  Mitch Albom

  Giving, Way, Care

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• My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Wish, May

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• Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin

  Robin Hobb

  Thinking, Assassins, Royal

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest”, p.1150, Del Rey

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• We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Order, Confusing, Scare

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood. Clarity is certainly a way toward disorientation because if you don't start out - if the reader isn't grounded, if the reader is disoriented in the beginning of the poem, then the reader can't be led astray or disoriented later.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Simple, Way

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

  Bertrand Russell

  Summer, Moving, Men

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "Dreams and Facts"

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• I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

  Wess Stafford

  Half, My Time, Comfortable

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• Truth is often uncomfortable. It is only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it. Then, truth becomes not only comforting, but inspiring.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Wish, Truth Is, Uncomfortable

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 05, 2010

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• I think the best thing about music is that someone could be writing a song that's so personal, and it tells so many other people's story at the same time. It kind of exemplifies that we are all kind of on the same wave[length] - it's amazing how comforting somebody else's story can be, because we have experienced their story in some way or another, and I can totally relate, and I get to feel that feeling and the expression of that emotion. I get to feel like as a listener, that somebody understands me, which is pretty incredible.

  Theresa Wayman

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I was sort of lazy at school, but I realize I still have something to bring to the subject which is comforting. I feel I am not as stupid as I thought I was.

  Michel Gondry

  Stupid, School, Lazy

  "Director Michel Gondry Talks IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?, His Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Using Hand-Drawn Illustrations, and UBIK Adaptation". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.

  Jim Butcher

  Loneliness, Home, Waiting

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.175, Penguin Group

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• They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Voice, Comrade, Strongest

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.156, Random House

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• There's something so comforting to me about having a cup of tea, and it really needs to be made with love - I can taste the difference.

  Miranda Kerr

  Differences, Tea, Cups

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Interview with Terry Richardson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life.

  Robert Bridges

  Men, Animal, Air

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• I think in the first place hearing the music inside of you is very soothing, very comforting. For me there always been, if you like, a spiritual connection between myself and music.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Spiritual, Thinking, Connections

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• The rooms that are lived in are the ones we find most comforting.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  House, Rooms, Cleaning

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• I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering because it was so dark and there was no one coming to help, whimpering because my mother was back in the crushed car, not moving, and my father was lying here in the dirt, not answering me, not holding me, not comforting me, not helping my mother get out of the car, and there was blood, so much blood, and broken glass everywhere, and it was so dark and so cold and no one was coming to help.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mother, Father, Lying

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.32, Vintage Canada

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• But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.

  Ian Mcewan

  Interesting, Liberation, Flattering

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• Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Character, Noble, Affection

  Gustave Flaubert (2013). “Madame Bovary”, p.114, Vintage

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• Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fiction, Pieces, Poetry Is

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.449, Vintage

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