Comfort Quotes

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one’s own comfort and not for the comfort of one’s neighbors.

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why.

To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

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

If you’re in a coalition and you’re comfortable, you know it’s not a broad enough coalition.

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

The rich comfort themselves by saying the poor are too stupid to feel the bad conditions of their lives. But no one ever gets used to hunger, or thirst, or overwork.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought!

Comfort, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor’s uneasiness.

What I aspired to be! And was not, comforts me.