Best Comforted Sayings
110 Comforted quotes by 98 unique authors
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Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased down a car…
— Jen Lancaster
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Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that…
— Kate DiCamillo
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He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there…
— Neil Gaiman
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Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition…
— Jane Austen
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I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels.…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing." Measure the…
— David Levithan
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I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for…
— George R. R. Martin
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Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the…
— Bill Bryson
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From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone else’s misery comforted…
— Simone Elkeles
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At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the arabic words made…
— Khaled Hosseini
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He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time…
— Mario Puzo
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A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over…
— Karen Kingsbury
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
— Louisa May Alcott
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She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted…
— Ruth Reichl
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She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.
— Elizabeth George Speare
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Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. [...] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted. I try to…
— Suzanne Collins
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The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your…
— Cornelia Funke
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Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.
— A A Milne
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Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't know if I'd want to be comforted, if I'm being honest. If I'm being forced to eat soot, I want to know that…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison:…
— Eoin Colfer
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