| "To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves." »Peter McWilliams |
| "If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| "We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share our dreams and to share in the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way." »Marlin Finch Lupus |
| "comfort ye, my people speak ye peace, thus saith our God. comfort those who sit in darkness, mourning 'neath their sorrow's load. For the glory of the Lord now o'er earth is shed abroad and all flesh shall see the token that His word is never broken." »Isaiah 401-8 Bible |
| "The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit." »Marya Mannes |
| "The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart." »Elizabeth Bowen |
| "As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it." »Mahatma Gandhi |
| "comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love." »King Soloman |
| "Food is the most primitive form of comfort." »Sheila Graham |
| "Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort." »Anne Sexton |
| "We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't." »Frank A. Clark |
| "Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection." »Francis Bacon |
| "Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with." »William Shakespeare |
| "Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort." »Lord Mancroft |
| "...love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other." »Han Suyin |
| "The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition." »Alan Alda |
| "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." »Charles Kingsley |
| "Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them." »Saint Basil |
| "Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words." »George Eliot |
| "Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort." »Charles Dickens |
| "I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others." »Jennifer Louden |
| "My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort." »Mohammed Reza Pahlavi |
| "Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none." »Giuseppe Mazzini |
| "There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere." »Jane Austen |
| "Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction." »Tryon Edwards |
| "The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish." »Pope John Paul II |
| "He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young." »Joseph Addison |
| "I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me." »Simone de Beauvoir |
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