Quote by David Levithan

“We find ways to comfort one another and to comfort ourselves. And comfort eases, but it does not erase. Until then, we keep reading.”

— Melissa Febos

“Love comforts, it is gentle, it is warm and you can feel it within your entire being.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“Sometimes you have to hug yourself and squeeze your own shoulder and be thankful it is humanly possible.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“You’re a comfort to me,” he said simply. “I mean to be. I bet you haven’t been comforted once since all this began. And…

— Kenzaburō Ōe

“Easy comfort isn’t comforting,” I said.”

— John Green

“a person has to go through a lot of pain to get to comfort!”

— Bertice Berry

“The thought of being made comfortable gives him strength to endure his pain.”

— Marcel Proust

“You're helping me, because you're like a therapist but you're also like a cushion; calming, huggable and light enough to throw at people.”

— Rose Hanning

“Comforting others can be tricky. It can get real sticky, if we think we are the comforter. There really is only one comforter.”

— Art Hochberg

“Giving and taking comfort in everything they could give and take, every part of them sought to make themselves one till it was impossible…

— Laird Koenig

“Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. Time is the only comforter.”

— Jules Renard

“I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with…

— Christina Baker Kline