If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort, you will get neither comfort nor truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.
—C. S. Lewis
Life is full of so much that you refuse to let yourself experience. The blanketing comfort of love, the fulfillment of contagious laughter, the peace of finding true joy, the butterflies of uncontainable excitement… these are all things that make up life. They should never be taken for granted.
—L.B. Simmons in The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller
The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
—John Steinbeck
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
—Hedy Lamarr
As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful.
—Laurie Helgoe in Introvert Power
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
—Henry David Thoreau
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought—particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
—Woody Allen
People's reaction to me is sometimes "Uch, I just don't like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great." But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave.
—Mindy Kaling in Why Not Me?
Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat.
—Sean Beaudoin in You Killed Wesley Payne
There was something so comforting in the certainty that someone knew about your biggest flaws and was still willing to stick around.
—R.K. Lilley in Bad Things
Beyond the quest for financial security and personal comfort, what, if anything, are we committed to?
—Nathan McCall
Some people don't like being happy. They're much more comfortable when they have a problem.
—Elin Hilderbrand in The Beach Club
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth—and truth rewarded me.
—Simone de Beauvoir
I turn in his arms, thinking how quickly it's become my favorite place in the world. Familiar, foreign, comforting, and thrilling all at once.
—Nicola Yoon in Everything
Nobody who ever accomplished anything big or new or worth raising a celebratory fist in the air did it from their comfort zone. They risked ridicule and failure and sometimes even death.
—Jen Sincero in You Are a Badass