Top Comforting Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Comforting quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Wess Stafford
I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.
- Wess Stafford
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Image of Carl Sagan
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
- Carl Sagan
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Image of Sue Miller
There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.
- Sue Miller
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Image of Jason Bateman
It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.
- Jason Bateman
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Image of David Alan Harvey
The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?
- David Alan Harvey
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Image of Peter Eisenman
The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.
- Peter Eisenman
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Image of Michael Ramsey
The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.
- Michael Ramsey
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Image of Mahesh Babu
Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.
- Mahesh Babu
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Image of Teri Garr
I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting
- Teri Garr
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Image of John Hodgman
Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do.
- John Hodgman
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Image of Jane Kaczmarek
There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.
- Jane Kaczmarek
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Image of George Harrar
In terms of morality, we can be very narrowly focused. So convinced of our point of view and righteousness, and it just doesn't allow for circumstance or other people's points of view. It's very comforting because you don't have to self-reflect, you just are. There's a strain of that in American culture.
- George Harrar
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Image of William Shakespeare
There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Eckhart Tolle
A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.
- Eckhart Tolle
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Image of Kurt Vonnegut
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Image of Ilona Andrews
There was something very comforting about him, and I was not sure if it was his easy manner or his complete immunity to my scowling.
- Ilona Andrews
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Image of Joseph Sobran
The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.
- Joseph Sobran
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Image of Neale Donald Walsch
Truth is often uncomfortable. It is only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it. Then, truth becomes not only comforting, but inspiring.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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Image of Patrick Ness
Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
- Patrick Ness
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Image of Carl Sagan
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.
- Carl Sagan
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Image of Bill Watterson
Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late.
- Bill Watterson
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Image of David Nicholls
…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
- David Nicholls
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Image of Alice Sebold
In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.
- Alice Sebold
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Image of Pio of Pietrelcina
The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat.
- Pio of Pietrelcina
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Image of Pam Brown
In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.
- Pam Brown
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Image of Richard Dawkins
There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.
- Richard Dawkins
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Image of Dave Eggers
How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.
- Dave Eggers
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Image of Craig Ferguson
I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.
- Craig Ferguson
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Image of John Green
Easy comfort isn't comforting
- John Green
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Image of John Fowles
The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.
- John Fowles
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Image of Jonathan Franzen
This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.
- Jonathan Franzen
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Image of Jessica Zafra
We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.
- Jessica Zafra
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Image of Sherrilyn Kenyon
Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.’ (Danger)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Image of Dean Koontz
The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.
- Dean Koontz
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Image of David Levithan
If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.
- David Levithan
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Image of Anne Lamott
Greasy food is so comforting when you are hungover.
- Anne Lamott
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Image of Jennifer Lopez
When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.
- Jennifer Lopez
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Image of H. L. Mencken
Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.
- H. L. Mencken
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