Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
—Lady Mary Worley Montagu
More quotations tagged with “comfort”
Marriage is a perilous and fearful effort, it seems to me.… It creates pain that it is the only cure for. It is the only comfort for its hardships.… Though we had our troubles, we had them in a true perspective. The universe, as we could see any night, is unimaginably large, and mostly empty, and mostly dark. We knew we needed to be together more than we needed to be apart.
—Wendell Berry
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
—Kurt Vonnegut
I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I’ve been. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.
—Suzanne Collins in The Hunger Games
The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating or sitting watchfully. It was family, he guessed, more or less. Did most people want a house of living things at night, to know that in the dark around them other warm bodies slept?
—Lydia Millet
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
—George Bernard Shaw
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