Comfort Quote by Philip Larkin

“Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back”

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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

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Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.

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And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing,…

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“Living toys are something novel, But it soon wears off somehow.”

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“Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, and stone, And little…

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Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, age, and…

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“It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity.”

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Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes…

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So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the…

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“One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.”

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“I sit in my room like Miss Havisham, about whom I have been reading this week. Better the Dickens you know than the Dickens…

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“When I throw back my head and howl People (women mostly) say But you've always done what you want, You always get your way…

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

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There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

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Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble…

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Comfort food is really anything you want at that time. That said, I really love Naple-style pizza.

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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

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A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which…

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Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are…

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Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

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