Comfort Quote by Christopher Marlowe

The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

— Aesop

“Such it is for those in the grips of misfortune: declarations of support and sympathy, rather than providing comfort, may merely increase the victim's…

— Osamu Dazai

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

— Publilius Syrus

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Sometimes in life we find comfort in people we least expect it from.

— Anonymous

It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.

— Jacqueline Carey

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

— George Eliot

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

— Honore de Balzac

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were…

— Simone Weil

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

— Anonymous

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

— George Eliot