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Comfort Quotes by George Eliot
- Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination…
- Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.
- The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way…
- Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all…
- I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
- Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
- Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them…
More Comfort Quotes
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. — Jane Austen
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila
- Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Teresa of Avila
- Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. — Francis Bacon
- Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs… — Saint Basil
- I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. — Simone de Beauvoir
- He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,… — Joseph Addison
- I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've… — Adele
- Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can… — Ezra Taft Benson