Comforting Quotes - Page 8

• When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Christian, Country, Buddhist

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• Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

  Dodie Smith

  Rainy Day, Rainy, Stew

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.276, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Comedian, Musician, Novelists

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• The truth is black celebrities are not as sought after in the press as white celebrities, and that is comforting.

  Niecy Nash

  White, Black, Truth Is

  "Niecy Nash: ‘Black Celebrities Are Not As Sought After’" by Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Love is healing. Love is comforting. Love is holy. Food can be all those things, too.

  Kris Carr

  Healing, Love Is, Holy

  FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Mar 26, 2016

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• I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life in case it was going to end soon. So, I wrote that and it was very comforting to have that practice in the afternoons in my living room. I just wrote about my life.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Father, Practice, Japan

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Song, Depressing, World

  "Home entertainment". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2002.

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• I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.

  Ellie Goulding

  Thinking, Missing, Going Away

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.

  Nick Cave

  Lying, Night, Singing

  Interview with Andrew Dominik, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2013.

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• I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Life, Moving, Self

  " Stumptown Girl" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. January 02, 2012.

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• I think people like difference. When you walk out the door in New York City, in a mixed-use neighborhood like the Village, you see exciting things! "Oh, this store is closing, that store is opening." And especially if it's not a chain store, then it is interesting because it is unique in some way. The small-scale familiar is also very comforting. Especially in the twenty-first century, when the world is rapidly changing and there are many risky situations, I think we need to build on and protect the comfort that we have in our neighborhoods in a way that does not exclude others.

  Sharon Zukin

  Unique, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most blessed, the writer, of all people, replaces that ordering principle. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.

  John Hodgman

  Pain, Blessed, People

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• It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Meaningful, Lying, Writing

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.70, LSU Press

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• I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.

  Mary Roach

  Nice, Halloween, Men

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• Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Prayer, Energy, Relief

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• The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up.. if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be.. a prudent insurance policy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Order, Swim

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• One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.

  Charles Frazier

  Powerful, Air, Meat

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• There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought, and he therefore cannot carry his own reflection to any logical conclusion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Men, Religion

  "Human Society in Ethics and Politics".

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• Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels the need to speak, and I suppose that is one of the qualities I find comforting in Kartik. We can be alone together.

  Libba Bray

  Night, Symphony, Quality

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dream, Sweet, Song

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• Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

  Helen Keller

  Dream, New York, Real

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• But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

  Dean Koontz

  Responsibility, Caring, Self

  Dean Koontz (2001). “Dark Rivers of the Heart/Intensity/Sole Survivor: Three Complete Novels by Dean Koontz”

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• All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Might, Natural

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.281, Open Road Media

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  Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Fantasy, Hard, Hard Truths

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

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• He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering--all at once.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Love, Heart, Hands

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