Comforting Quote by Richard Dawkins

“Medical research conducted during the Iraq War has confirmed that immediate administration of morphine following a traumatic event can prevent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).”

— Neal Stephenson

“Contrary to what a lot of people believe (or hope), comfort doesn’t take the pain away. Comfort slides in beside the pain, pulling up…

— Peggy Haymes

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“How very comforting. If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing”

— Scott Lynch

It feels like I'm in my own graveyard Striving to catch my breath With no one to hold on to But an uncleared hope…

— Jessel Jane Zozobrado

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Pain is your friend, your ally, it will tell you when you are seriously injured, it will keep you awake and angry, and remind…

— Anonymous

“Postponed pain is among the most abominable kind to experience.”

— J.D. Salinger

Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.

— Patrick Ness

“Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“The best cure for one's own grief and pain was worrying about the well-being of someone else.”

— Drew Karpyshyn