Comforting Quotes - Page 16

• I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

  Louis C. K.

  Taken, Thinking, Done

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• Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

  Jane Smiley

  Enlightening, Currents, Novel

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.279, Anchor

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• Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Believe, Fairy Tale, Used

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• Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn't sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped.

  Regina Brett

  Mom, Children, Tears

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• Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

  Regina Brett

  Hate, Tombstone, People

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• But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Flower, Sadness, Thinking

  Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown (1998). “Poems of Fernando Pessoa”, p.9, City Lights Books

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• Go to sleep," he says softly. His hand brushes the lose strands of my hair off my forehead. Unlike the staged kisses and caresses so far, this gesture seems natural and comforting. I don't want him to stop and he doesn't. He's still stroking my hair when I fall asleep.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fall, Sleep, Kissing

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• There’s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There’s also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didn’t turn out half bad either.

  Vicki Pettersson

  Thinking, Childhood, Vices

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• If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with the face on Mars and alien abductions, better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Real, Data

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.263, Ballantine Books

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• There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Believe, Grace

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• When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Age, Accepting

  "Jennifer Lopez: February 2013 Cover". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 3, 2013.

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• Im a ridiculous sci-fi fan. In fact, I admit it freely; my manager is horrified. I just recently bought seasons two through five of Star Trek: The Next Generation on DVD. And Ive watched all the episodes, half on the plane and a few of them as I was going to sleep last night. Theres something about sci-fi thats comforting.

  Emma Caulfield

  Stars, Sleep, Night

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• My all-time favorite skin cream is from Poland. Its called Eva Natura with Polish herbs, including rosemary. It smells wonderful and is soothing and comforting.

  Dagmara Dominczyk

  Smell, Skins, Herbs

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• For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.

  Werner Herzog

  Self, Breathing, Long

  Werner Herzog (2009). “Conquest of the useless: reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo”, Ecco Pr

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• By nature, your soul is soft, gentle, loving and kind. It is forgiving, peaceful, and humble. Confident and comforting in times of despair, your soul is strong, focused, and determined in the mission called life.

  Debbie Ford

  Strong, Humble, Soul

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• To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.

  Ian Ziering

  Old Friends

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• Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is – profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned.

  Susan Howe

  Children, Writing, Vivid

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• It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Past, People, Seductive

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• Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's passing, while by the ocean's beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain.

  Robert Adams

  Ocean, Sea, Rivers

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• Its very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.

  Raymond Aubrac

  Jobs, Giving, Easy

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• It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is less like one who constructs landscapes -- for that is a sedentary task -- than like one who destroys them. . . . But even destruction is a form of architecture, a deconstruction that follows certain rules and calculations, an art of disassembling and reassembling, or of creating another and different order.

  Claudio Magris

  Art, Should Have, Creating

  Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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• There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

  Sue Miller

  Serious, Illusion, False Hope

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• Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

  Colin Powell

  Justice, Needs, Speech

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• Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

  David Quammen

  Book, Intellectual, Fleeting

  David Quammen (2012). “The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.

  Mahesh Babu

  Wealth, Good Work, Increase

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