Quotes about Comfort

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course "a la mode."

It is so much pleasanter and wholesomer to be warmed by the sun while you can be, than by an artificial fire.

They who are at work abroad are not cold, but rather it is they who sit shivering in houses.

I'd rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion

But by her still halting course and winding, woeful way, you plainly saw that this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without comfort. She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they were not.

For this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich. For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blankets between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.

Because a laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer; and come what will, one comfort's always left--that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.

It's a wonderful thing to have a companion like that who just wants to sit by you while you work.

There are people who are not wealthy because they want to be comfortable.

The kind of trust God wants us to have cannot be learned in comfort and ease.

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.