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Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an

“He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!”

Ifs Thinking World Children Long Made Said Stills Might Song Voice Air This World Son Comfort Folly Sinner Spokes Adam Roaring Bursting Rumble Growling

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?”

Ifs Seems Comfort Offers Breaths Gentle Worn Afar Worn Out Wherever You Are

Book:The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

Source: The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

“I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I’m humbly aware of how much less a person I’d be – how less a human – if they did not exist.”

Ifs Feels Humans Persons Dog Comfort Concern Family And Friends Inability Few Friends

Book:Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had

Source: Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had

“The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought it too.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Ideas Reason Use Bigs Interest Animal Enemy Achieve Needed Comfort Survival Machines Safety Unusual

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.”

Ifs Age Faces Can Do Worst Comfort Aspect Ill Old Age Iron Layers Stubborn Elders Spoil Kate Fright

Book:Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

“It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.”

Ifs Thinking Made Stills Sometimes Faces Night Found Left Voice Rooms Comfort Empty Rings Despite Disturbing Thinking Of Him

Book:Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“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 them.”

Ifs Trying May Courses Cry Tears Comfort Noble Things To Do

Author:Daniel Handler

“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”

Ifs Giving Heart Kind May Made Sometimes Helping Hands Born Sweet Comfort Gay Laughter Empty Warm Princess Giver Sweet Things Little Princess

Book:A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just come. If he had not the energy to ascertain his position in time and space, he also lacked the desire. ... In utter comfort, utter relaxation he lay absolutely still for a while, and then sank back into on the the light momentary sleeps that occur after a long, profound one.”

Ifs Littles Long Stills Light Eye Desire Energy Sleep Space Rooms Position Comfort Lays Profound His Eyes Relaxation Time And Space Momentary

Author:Paul Bowles

“If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.”

Ifs Men Comfort Distance

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.”

Ifs Faces Suffering My Own Mistake Failing Becoming Tomorrow Comfort Bed Blame Shortcomings My Own Life Here I Am Another Day Transgression Tomorrow Is Another Day

Book:LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING

Source: LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING

“If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.”

Ifs Inspirational Growth Consciousness Position Inspirational Life Comfort Self Confidence Zone Comfort Zone

Author:Les Brown

“The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it's all right. One leaf still dances in the air. It spins higher and higher, defying gravity and logic, stretching for something just out of reach. It shall have to fall, of course. Eventually. But for now, I hold my breath, willing it to keep going, taking comfort in its struggle.”

Ifs Stills Fall Courses Struggle Air Willing Wind Higher Comfort Picks Logic Breaths Blow Settling Keep Going Gravity Leafs Breeze Stretching Defying Defying Gravity

Book:Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.”

“Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back”

Ifs Home Lasts Winning Left Comfort So Sad

Book:The Whitsun Weddings

Source: The Whitsun Weddings

“God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Needs Made Stills Would Be Fun Enemy Danger Comfort Goodness Absolutes Safety Meetings Terror Supreme Allies Wrong Way Great Safety

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.”

Source: The Hour of the Star

“To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.”

Ifs Memories Comfort Lonely Discomfort

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.”

Ifs Knows Moments Difficult Know How Doors Comfort Taste Notion Abundance Within Reach Difficult Moments Apricots

Author:Isabel Allende

“I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and back, offering me the comfort of his broad, warm chest. My sobs lessened and I began to calm myself, leaning tiredly into the curve of his shoulder. No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere.”

Ifs Feelings Bits Behinds Wonder Listening Comfort Quiet Speech Ears Horse Fingers Calm Warm Shoulders Confusion Necks Broads Chests Offering Curves Heartbroken Soothing Jamie Outlander

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.”

Ifs Language Reader Sorrow Comfort Promise Farewell Absolutely Nothing Despereaux

Book:The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection

Source: The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection

“The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.”

Ifs Needs Should Littles Said Sometimes Hard Law Sleep Brother Comfort Horror Eating Weapons Stones Clubs Possession Curious Bishops Stunning Hard Life Little Brother Shrewdness

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.”

Ifs Stills Done Facts Wanted Certain Known Gone Impossible Comfort Lonely Glad

Book:The Little Friend

Source: The Little Friend

“What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business.”

Ifs World Way May Mean Feelings Hands Evil Belief Wish Sin Responsibility Moral Worry Issues Comfort Eternal Treats Absolutes Believer Saving Outcomes Holiday Finite Wags Anon

Author:William James

“There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.”

Ifs Facts Young Dies Simple Security Expression Comfort Prejudice Prepared Males Idiot Preserves Heroism Elders Shortage Scarcity

Author:Iain Banks

“In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.”

People Ifs World Stills Important Earth Numbers Comfort Agree Meetings Corners Flats Vocal Corners Of The World

Author:Warren Buffett

“Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?”

Ifs Want Trying Doe Sometimes Pain Lasts Joy Memories Grief One Thing Comfort Grants Want To Be Happy

Author:Megan Hart

“As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the most basic proof of His existence is black humor. What else explains it, that odd, reliable comfort that billows up at the worst moments, like a beautiful sunset woven out of the smoke over a bombed city.”

Ifs Believe Moments Beautiful I Believe Black Cities Existence Worst Subjects Comfort Proof Smoke Odd Sunset Woven Black Humor Worst Moments Beautiful Sunset

Author:Elizabeth McCracken

“If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a man loses his wealth, after a little thought he will realize that the delight that came from wealth will be restored by finding more. Thus he forgets his loss and is consoled. But if a man's heart is deprived of peace, where will he find it again, how will he replace it?”

Ifs Men Looks Heart Littles Realizing Loses Wealth Loss Forget Comfort Findings Dear Delight Deprived Console Dear Friend Many Friends His Loss

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.”

Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

“It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.”

Ifs Thinking Reason Facts Reality Seems Able Greater Comfort Reasonable

Author:Donald Miller

“Best way then is to be waiting for them to bring Halt and the others out of that prison,” he said, almost to himself. “There’s only one reason I can think of that they might do that,” Umar said. “That’s if they are going to execute them.” Will lookd at him for several seconds before speaking. “Well, that’s a big comfort.”

Ifs Thinking Way Wells Said I Can Reason Bigs Might Waiting Comfort Prison Best Way Seconds Halt Speaking Well

Author:John Flanagan

“Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.”

Ifs Want Humans Order Comfort Comfortable Plant Something Better

Book:A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.”

Ifs Mind Peace Feet Comfort Quiet Golden Contentment Introvert Quietness Slippers Pilgrims Progress

Author:John Bunyan

“It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it doesn't care if you habitually pass by on the other side. It's just there for when you need it. Dedicated to the patron saint of lost causes, St. Jude's is an old old place... St. Jude's isn't a place for comfort for frills and fancies and the trappings of religion. just a place where you can talk to your god and sometimes get an answer.”

Ifs Needs Sometimes Care Lost Causes Sides Answers Comfort Quiet Saint Corners Fancy Usual Dedicated Noir Patron Neon Gaudy Lost Cause Frills Old Places St Jude

Author:Simon R. Green

“I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.”

Ifs Should Littles Might Land Comfort Distance London Protest Spares Elegance Advise Cottages Few Friends

Book:Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]

Source: Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]

“...to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes when it seems least so), in times of downheartedness and tiredness and sadness, always always He is near. He does comfort, if we let Him. Perhaps someone as weak and good-for-nothing as even I am may read this. Don't be afraid! Through all circumstances, outside, inside, He can keep me close.”

Ifs May Doe Sometimes Inspiration Seems Names Sadness Land Loneliness Circumstances Comfort Glory Weak Let Me Witness Far Away Tiredness

Author:Amy Carmichael

“You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Life Happens Used Universe Terrible Comfort Deserve Fairs Awful Unfair Hostility Terrible Things Unfairness

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.”

Ifs Children Has Beens Problem Mother Answers Gone Missing Comfort Bigger Cures Imaginary Superhero Deities

Book:Vanishing Acts

Source: Vanishing Acts

“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 perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.”

Source: Housekeeping: A Novel

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