It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God. — Francis Asbury Copy Share Image
Most of my food memories are of my Nan cooking Sunday dinners - roasts of meat with lots of vegetables. I suppose… — April Bloomfield Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hearing you're going to have to go up to Duke University and check your heart out is not the most comforting thing. — Aaron Boone Copy Share Image
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“When did I say I'd never leave?" "In your sleep, it was the most comforting thing I'd heard in so long.” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“Holding on to a four-year-old boy wasn't weird, as it should have been. It was comforting. Like holding an incredibly sticky teddy… — Dia Reeves Copy Share Image
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great,… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having… — Elizabeth David Copy Share Image
O sleep! O sleep! Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep, Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand Over the… — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
U Know I don't need a pillow to sleep on, I don't need the best bed, I don't even need my Cute… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is not the darkness of shadows: one that follows you, haunts you, terrifies you. Instead, it consumes you, becomes you, weighs… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to make a living as a writer in Hollywood than it was probably 10 years ago, though there's… — Ed Brubaker Copy Share Image
Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
“When I am not with you I am alone, For there is no one else And there is nothing That comforts me… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“truly this is one of the few advantages of being a star - or rather a former star, in my case: when… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had… — Rachel Ward Copy Share Image
Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it… — Lynn Hershman Leeson Copy Share Image
What was so comforting was that the more I started being honest on my blog, the more people responded. — Caroline Calloway Copy Share Image
Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“So much more comforting to see bad in others; gives us all sorts of excuses for our own bad behavior. But good?… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement,… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“There is something so comforting about finding your changed self in a familiar place, as if the background noise vanished leaving you… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
