Comfort Quote by David Mitchell Download Open image ““I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.”” — David Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comfort Helplessness Humanity Nature of man
“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself had no… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“he was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he intended to… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“I think I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. Perhaps this is what Veronica called cowardice and I called being peaceable.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I can feel the grip of lost lives beneath me, starved hearts hoping to escape their shadowy fates.” — Ky Grabowski Copy Share Image
“He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.” — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“And with each new comfort, with each new modern convenience, man slowly dies. He removes himself from his humanity.” — Daniel Seltzer Copy Share Image
“The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.” — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Who among us does not move through life with the hidden sense, maybe even quiet desperation, that we are destined for more?” — Peter Bregman Copy Share Image
“There is something comforting about losing myself in a different world, where the characters are strong and brave and follow their hearts.” — Erica Cope Copy Share Image
“The courage to surrender comes from knowing that the love and pain will almost kill us, but not quite.” — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
For many, the call to be a Christian can seem demanding, even overwhelming. But we need not be afraid or feel inadequate. The Savior… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers. — Deborah Norville Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Comfort food is really anything you want at that time. That said, I really love Naple-style pizza. — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
