Be of good comfort brother; for we shall have a merry supper with the Lord tonight!

When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice...

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, “Here are the...

Fight! Rabbit! Fight!

But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.

True love takes time. It’s an earned comfort that tells you she’ll be right there beside you no matter what you do, not necessarily happy with your every action, but faithful to you just the...

Let go with me. Let me comfort you with my body…there’s no shame in forgetting for a night even if you know you’ll remember in the morning.

Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.

I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers—trying to understand...

People like hurting each other but loving is not a waste.

There was something comforting about believing in things that didn’t exist.

… one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will...

Hold me in your arms, lava lamp! Let me seek magma comfort and peace in the warmth of your kryptonite embrace.

Low self-esteem is no better home to take a refuge. It does not keep you comforted from any danger; it keeps you confined away from your real belongings!

Prose Poems from my book SPANOBSERVATIONSo, we may not be able to explain the world. Not exactly. But we can accept it, and love it. We can turn our faces to the light and examine...

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

When you give a team like that comfort shots, they’re going to wear you. I think we just didn’t execute well enough the game plan. It’s not just coach. It falls on the players for...

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

She wished she could visit Mariam’s grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn’t matter. Mariam is never very far…. Mariam is in her own...

I found I could listen without envy to Letty’s singing, and afterwards when the applause came, I did not mind that Mrs Knowles was heaping praises upon her. Peter’s hands were on my chair, and...

We don’t necessarily need to know each other’s name, age, profession, drug of choice, childhood trauma or recent tragedy to understand what pain feels like and offer comfort. We are strangers drawn together by a...

You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.

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 a chair so that we have something more than sorrow in...

Dear Beloved woman,Time… so much time has passed since my love wrote his last words for me.And yet I remember it as if it were yesterday. I remember writing back and for the first time...

Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.

Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other until that day, between whom no...

Eu chorei para valer, sem tentar bancar o durão, segurando aquelas folhas que se molhavam com minhas lágrimas, as letras ficando borradas. Palavras que me fizeram conhecer a forma mais louvável de amor: aquele que...

There’s going to be a little more sense of comfort with him now. He knows this club, he knows the city, so it’s nice to have him on the bench. He gives us depth and...

He had remained steadfast in agnosticism and therefore, as Mabel took comfort in remarking, ‘he never denied God.’ Neither did he affirm God.

Oh yes”, said the old woman, “but I’ve heard these so-called stoves are by no means all they are supposed to be. I never saw a stove in my day, and yet never ailed a...

We have had no specific or credible threats, but we don’t take that as any kind of comfort. We know we need to be ready and we know that, that vigilance is the price of...

Never underestimate the power of the words ‘I love you’ or the comfort of a simple hug. Grow your love daily.

I don’t desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home- and my sanity depends on it.

Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and madness; but sex it is always about comfort, pleasure and power.

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things...

No matter how many years passed or how much responsibility each assumed, they still managed to bicker like bitchy teenagers on a regular basis. In some way, though, each found it comforting; it reminded them...

There’s something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.

Come on, then,” I say, pulling him into my room.It feels like a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again. I didn’t realize until now how starved I’ve been for human closeness. For the feel of him...

To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.

Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. The Conservative

The traditional role of journalism is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .

I’m usually a bit awkward in houses that I haven’t been to before, so it’s a way to not look weird. If I find something I’ve read before it automatically makes me more comfortable.

Hope had finally learned to live in the present. Often, when she found herself in a space of tremendous comfort, usually out in nature, or when her children were safe all around her and on...

Peace is not found by seeking it but in simply letting it be.

Change comes with sacrifice… When you want to make a change you must be prepared to make a sacrifice of escaping the comfort zone!

Dark now. Blacker than black, I know it. And words are tiny things in the face of all that dark and all that cold. But hear these words, little sister. Hear and know. Tomorrow is...

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those...

if you are married, there exists no comfort in being intelligent.