Quotes of Relief - somelinesforyou

“ Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ”

- Katherine Mansfield

“ I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. ”

- Washington Irving

“ And remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ”

- Emily Kimbrough

“ You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable. ”

- Princess Diana

“ I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ”

- George Eliot

“ We find comfort among those who agree with us — growth among those who don't. ”

- Frank A Clark

“ This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. ”

- Finley Peter Dunne

“ Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. ”

- Malcolm S. Forbes

“ Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. ”

- Alice Walker

“ No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. ”

- Clare Boothe Luce

“ Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too. ”

- Unknown

“ Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. ”

- Sir Francis Bacon

“ There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ There is a comfort in the strength of love;'Twill make a thing endurable, which elseWould overset the brain, or break the heart. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Even success needs its consolations. ”

- George Eliot

“ Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system? ”

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

“ 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. ”

- Lemony Snicket

“ Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us to really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ”

- Charles Kingsley

“ In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to love it. ”

- Peter McWilliams

“ There's little comfort in the wise. ”

- Rupert Brooke

“ Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. ”

- Bible

“ Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ This grief is crowned with consolation, you old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow. ”

- William Shakespeare
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