Comforts Quotes

223 quotes by 197 authors

Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. — Benjamin Franklin
Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is,… — Carl Sagan
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, itâ€™s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this… — Clarice Lispector
Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and… — Christopher Brookmyre
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of… — Paulo Coelho
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
We want everything. All the happiness that earth and heaven are capable of bestowing. Creature comforts, and heart and soul comforts also; and, proud-spirited beings… — Jerome K. Jerome
It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much… — Donald Miller
I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain menâ€”for certain peopleâ€”to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather… — Daniel Defoe
I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines — Joanne Harris
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an… — Jon Krakauer
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on… — James Boswell
â€ŽWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat… — Thomas Jefferson
I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and… — Irvin D. Yalom
To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is… — Charles Spurgeon
Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, â€” that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek… — Louisa May Alcott
The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you? I'm… — Karen Marie Moning

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