“The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves.” PeopleYearsHas BeensLastsMoralClassSupportRichRevolutionComfortDestructionHatredMurderCrisisTerrorVariousThirtyDeceitDevicesContemptOppressedCunningThirty YearsVergeWorkmenPostponingMoral Strength Author:Leo Tolstoy
“Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.” PeopleTurnsCoursesFrontsComfortDiscoveryTerrorLuxuryRehearsal Author:Julianne Nicholson
“The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.” WorldNeedsWishExistenceComfortIndependentTerrorDefenseFamily LifeHomely Author:Christopher Lasch
“The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.” Has BeensMotherSourceComfortMy FamilyTerrorAvailableProtectionGrandmotherMy Grandmother Author:Wendy C. Ortiz
“The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.” MomentsLiteratureDoorsConfidenceComfortMindfulnessBlessedFinalsTerrorOpeningPrivacyClosingJoyous Author:Andy Rooney
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantNeedsMadeStillsWould BeFunEnemyDangerComfortGoodnessAbsolutesSafetyMeetingsTerrorSupremeAlliesWrong WayGreat Safety Author:C. S. Lewis
“It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible - incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.” WorldMadeFactsWatchesSourceComfortImpactTerrorInvisiblePrivilegedImpact On The World Author:Marilynne Robinson
“Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.” ThinkingShouldJoyStuffUnderstandingEmotionWillingComfortDrugElementsComfortableEmpathyComplexesNotionTerrorSurrenderTriumphNosesEcstasyToysReplacedContainingPrehistoricEscapists Author:Terence McKenna