Comforts Quotes

223 quotes by 197 authors

Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new… — Sue Miller
The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before… — Iain Banks
Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God. — Lew Wallace
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than… — C.S. Lewis
We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after… — Patrick deWitt
I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning… — Bill Bryson
Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can… — Jean Vanier
â€ŽAnd when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore;… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servantsâ€™ quarters and leaves… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not… — David Levithan
If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, for as long as I possibly could. — Sylvia Plath
The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts. — Brandon Mull
Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost. — Jonathan Tropper
Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy… — Joe Hill
This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It… — Anne Lamott
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and… — Amelia Barr
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts… — Learned Hand
I love my creature comforts. — Stephen Graham
WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to… — Anita Shreve
The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books. — Anatoly Rybakov

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