Comfort Quotes

"A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income."

"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."

"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things."

"There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes - a powerful force, to overcome the "tough breaks" which are certain to come to most of us from time to time"

"In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence"

"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth."

"A perfect woman, nobly planned,To warn, to comfort, and command;And yet a Spirit still, and brightWith something of angelic light."

"I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them"

"MenCan counsel and speak comfort to that griefWhich they themselves not feel."

"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."

"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words."

"[Rush fans hoping to see more of the band may take comfort from the album's final song.] Out of the Cradle, ... Here we come out of the cradle / Endlessly rocking."

"I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past."

"There is a comfort in the strength of love;'T will make a thing endurable, which elseWould overset the brain, or break the heart. . . ."

"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable."

"How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital."

"Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of your Grace, for trouble being gone, comfort should remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave."

"Society is no comfort to one not sociable."

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."

"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."