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Comfort Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction.…
- You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort…
- 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,…
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