Comforting Quotes

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers

Life, Yourself, Words

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Angelina Jolie

Life, Death, Tomorrow

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
Alice Walker

Sister, Anywhere, Solace

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Noam Chomsky

Live, Choose, Illusion

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.
Amy Grant

Life, Future, Why

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.
Carrie Brownstein

Moving, Feeling, Person

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.
Sandra Lee

Food, Personal, Bit

Quote

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Felix Adler

Past, Action, Thousand

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
Franz Kafka

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.
Mitch Albom

Peace, Care, Give

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.
Kristen Bell

Time, Sunday, Nothing

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.
Louis C. K.

Done, Through, Reason

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.
Marc Jacobs

Love, Everyday, Luxurious

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
Tom Wolfe

Problem, Put, Mad

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
Jon Meacham

Great, Reality, Wonderful

I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Life, Religion, Makes

I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.
Ellie Goulding

Music, Live, Away

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.
Jared Leto

Someone, Used, Found

In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.
Ina Garten

Light, Body, Winter

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
Rahm Emanuel

Politics, Failure, Mind

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
Fareed Zakaria

Hard, Used, Fairy

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.
Jane Smiley

Learned, Another, Times

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
Natalie Imbruglia

Alone, Sad, Find

I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.'
Marissa Mayer

Girl, Put, Wait

I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.
Teri Garr

Food, Delicious, Fondness

I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
Victoria Justice

Forward, Single, Wait

And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.
Barbara Walters

Life, Live, Important

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
Cecil Beaton

Death, Fear, Reality

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.
Berkeley Breathed

Heart, Through, Ugly

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.
Juliana Hatfield

Good, Someone, Makes

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Martin Buber

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us