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“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.”

Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”

Source: The diary of a young girl

“When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.”

Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.”

Knows Way Home Grows Dangerous Comfort Safe Sticks Quitting Dangerous Things Nothing Ever Changes

Book:Monster

Source: Monster

“I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.”

Knows World Book Dream Lying Comfort Please Offers Fancy Cracks Leaving Me Me Alone Leave Me Alone

Author:William H. Gass

“They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.”

Knows Persons Simple Identity Circumstances Comfort Understood Embrace Intimacy Desperate Abandon Allowing Folds Fiber Replicate

Author:Christopher Paolini

“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

“We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.”

“when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.”

Knows Want Giving Reason Names Fine Comfort Conscience Hunting Righteous Plausible

Book:No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger

Source: No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger

“There is one thing you know for sure, one fact that never fails to comfort you: the worst day of your life wasn't in there, in that mess. And it will do you good to remember the best day of your life wasn't in there, either. But another person brought you closer to those borders than you had been, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.”

Knows Persons Facts Remember Failing One Thing Worst Comfort Mess Borders Bad Things Worst Day

Book:How Did You Get This Number

Source: How Did You Get This Number

“it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.”

Knows Suffering Position Comfort Dare

Author:Hudson Taylor

“How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it two when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.”

Source: The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

“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

“Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words that are somehow made imperfect when used to describe her and all that should remain unsaid about her- it is all unsupported by reason. I know that. But that enigmatic calm that attaches itself to people in the presence of reason- it's something from which I haven't been able to take comfort, not reliably, not since her.”

People Knows Should Made Reason Able Remember Used Perfect Havens Comfort Calm Imperfect Gestures Unsaid Enigmatic

Author:Elliot Perlman

“It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.”

Knows Want Giving Might Courses Religious Imagine Comfort Hardest Imagine That Couches Barbara Doormat

Book:Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels

“I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found comfort in thus deceiving yourselves. So that I, perhaps, come out even more "living" than you.”

Knows Found Speak Taken Feet Comfort Concerned Angry Misery Excuse Extremes Gentleman Cowardice Deceiving Stamps Halfway Good Sense Excuse Me

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I don’t know what boldness came over me, but the resolute heaviness of Dash’s demeanor threatened to crush my soul. My pinky finger crept over and nestled against his, for comfort. Like a magnet, his pinky finger latched onto and intertwined with mine. I like magnets a whole lot.”

Knows Soul Whole Mines Comfort Fingers My Soul Crush Threatened Boldness Magnet Resolute Intertwined Heaviness Demeanor

Author:Rachel Cohn

“When men die, they die in fear", he said. "They take everything they need from you, and as a doctor it is your job to give it, to comfort them, to hold their hand. But children die how they have been living - in hope. They don't know what's happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand - but you end up needing them to hold yours. With children, you're on your own. Do you understand?”

Knows Men Needs Giving Children Has Beens Said Ends Hands Jobs Dies Asks Comfort Happenings Doctors Expect Nothing

Author:Tea Obreht

“Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.”

Ifs Knows Should Wells Said Would Be Order Dies Dangerous Fit Comfort Daughter Should Have Prejudice Notes Dear Illness Pursuit Your Daughter Mrs Bennet

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.”

Knows Needs Writing May Persons Different Stories Lying Grows Kindness Growing Up Reader Comfort Landscape Having Hope True Things Somewhere Out There Good Lies Why We Write

Author:Neil Gaiman

“This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.”

People Knows World Wells May Reality Seems Lying Opportunity Given Can Do Chance Simple Comfort Truth Is Cruelty Changing The World Telling The Truth Falsehood Defeated Armament

Author:Mira Grant

“It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much. I knew she could not be unmaidenly; and yet I yearned for conviction. Now I am glad!' It was a little golden thread running through the dark web of his present fortunes; which were growing ever gloomier and more gloomy.”

Knows May Littles Said Running Dark Growing Brother Comfort Fortune Conviction Glad Golden Relief Thread Gloomy Mr Thornton

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

“But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.”

Knows Mean Seems Might Faces Dying Comfort Telling The Truth Scare

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to find I'm the same old me? There is comfort in the tried and true. Breaking ground might uncover a sinkhole, one impossible to climb out of. And setting sail in uncharted waters might mean capsizing into a sea monster's jaws. Easier to turn my back on these things than to try tjem and fail. And yet, a whisper insists I need to know if they are or aren't integral to me. Status quo is a swamp. And stagnation is slow death.”

“He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.”

Thinking Knows Feels Ends Home Hands Sides Happened Hair Broken Comfort Studios Likes Knees The End Of The Day Coming Home Wrestling Pants Wet Ankles Knuckles Foxholes

Author:Tom Waits

“Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?”

Ifs Knows Greater Grace Comfort Shadow Mercy Perserverance Mercy And Forgiveness

Book:One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.”

Knows Giving Light Sin Forget Enemy Darkness Comfort Agree Lovely

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“I could be worse, you know." "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse." "Sounds unsanitary," I said.”

Knows Way Mean Said Sound Know How Comfort Toilets Tease Calligraphy

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.”

Knows Able Hate Numbers Comfort I Hate Torn Hate Myself I Hate Myself

Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I don't know what I expected from my first meeting with Peeta after the announcement. A few hugs and kisses. A little comfort maybe. Not this. I turn to Haymitch. "Don't worry, I'll get you more liquor.”

Knows Firsts Littles Turns Worry Comfort Kissing Meetings Expected Hug Liquor Peeta Announcements Catching Fire Haymitch

Book:Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.”

“Not all men are the same, you know. With someone such as Gavriel, I would suggest appearing aloof, not chasing too much. He might see that as suffocating rather than charming." Her words are sharp, but her voice is sweet, like honey on the edge of a blade, and meant to be cutting. I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face and commending his soul to Mortain.”

Ifs Knows Men Feels Soul Might Faces Voice Too Much Cutting Sweet Comfort Edges Meant To Be Honey Charming Chasing Blades Pillow Appearing Aloof Suffocating

Author:R.L. LaFevers

“A comfort zone can be a mental state:Belief in God is a lot of peoples's comfort zone. Dont get me wrong, I'm not knocking faith; I just dont think you should have it because it makes you feel safe. I think you should have it because you do. Because somewhere deep inside you, you know beyond equivocating that something greater, wiser and infinitely more loving than we're capable of understanding has a vested interested in the universe, in the way things turn out. Because you can feel that, as much as the forces of darkness might try to gain the upper hand, there is an Upper Hand.”

“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.”

“You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate... On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal." "I think that's some kind of rule for the universe.”

Thinking Knows Kind Doe Helping Feelings Hands Universe Hurt Deals Knowing Comfort Deliberate Hurt My Feelings

Book:Tales of the Madman Underground

Source: Tales of the Madman Underground

“You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it." "You're a hard person to comfort," Augustus said. "Easy comfort isn't comforting," I said.”

Knows Persons Said Hard Beautiful Lying Easy Parent Comfort Crosses Arguing Buying Sentiments Fragile Comforting Pillow Augustus Rare Things

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.”

Source: The Works of Charles Kingsley

“He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who had ever cried for him”

Knows World Persons Comfort Cried

Book:Heart of Obsidian: A Psy-Changeling Novel

Source: Heart of Obsidian: A Psy-Changeling Novel

“This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.”

Knows Giving Seems Spiritual Wind Comfort Thirds Profound Holes Conquer Rats Guise Spiritual Truth Profound Spiritual

Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.”

Knows Men Way Believe May Matter Able Religion Easy My Own Teach Comfort No Matter What Possession Valuable One Way This Life Folly Suspects Interfere Another Man Hereafter Valuable Possessions

Author:Mark Twain

“I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.”

People Knows Love Has Beens Certain Spirituality Loses Memories Loss Decision Knowing Our Lives Comfort Grieving Grief And Loss Sympathy Loved Ones Lost Love Death Of A Loved One Our Memories Those We Love Grief And Healing Condolences Love And Loss Love And Death Griefing Memory Loss Indelible Losing A Loved One My Sympathy Loss Of A Loved One Grief Loss Love Death My Father Died Lost Ones Decisions We Make Love Loss Words Of Sympathy Sympathy Condolences Death Grief Sympathy For Loss Death Comfort Condolences And Sympathy Death Sympathy Grief Comfort Death And Loss Condolence Message Sympathy Card Grief Healing Death Condolences Words Of Condolence Inspirational Condolences Inspirational Sympathy Lost Loved Ones Sympathy Messages Mourning Loss Loved One My Condolences Death Remembrance Comfort Loss Famous Condolence Sympathy And Love Healing From Loss Words Of Comfort Grief And Loss Inspirational Our Condolences Condolence Card

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.”

Knows World Littles Home Virtue Magic Comfort Limits Circles Surround Mystic Magic In The World

Author:Robert Southey

“We reflect on what has been lost and comfort those enduring a profound grief. And somehow we know that a brighter morning will come.”

Knows Has Beens Lost Grief Morning Comfort Profound Endure Brighter Condolences

Author:George W. Bush

“Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.”

People Ifs Knows Might Care Life Is Can Do Risk Special Ready Comfort Hard Times Zone About Yourself Comfort Zone Who Cares Great People Taking Risks

Author:Amy Poehler

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