Comfort Quotes

Most popular comfort quotes

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 quote.
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.

luxury

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. - W. Somerset Maugham quote.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

freedom

Comfort comes as a guest, lingers to become a host and stays to enslave us.

habit

It is an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to be needed.

happiness

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. - G. K. Chesterton quote.
An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

adventure

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. - Charles Dickens quote.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

mind adversity

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth—and truth rewarded me. - Simone de Beauvoir quote.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth—and truth rewarded me.

certainty

The sad thing is that, even though we know our lives aren't working in certain areas, we are still afraid to change. We are locked into our comfort zone, no matter how self-destructive it may be.

change

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.  You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing, but what you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. - Alan Alda quote.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.  You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing, but what you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Alan Alda Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
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 quote.
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.

happiness

Comfort, however, easily merges into license.
Comforting truths, they call it!  Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward. - Georges Bernanos quote.
Comforting truths, they call it!  Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
Comfort, n.  A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Comfort, n.  A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.
The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort.

lies

One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion. - Lillian Hellman quote.
One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life. - Anne Lamott quote.
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.
Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master? - Kahlil Gibran quote.
Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master?
Food is the most primitive form of comfort. - Sheila Graham quote.
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

food

I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
Familiarity can periodically provide people with an intrinsic sense of comfort, no matter how sick.

familiarity

In misery it is a great comfort to have a companion. - John Lyly quote.
In misery it is a great comfort to have a companion.
In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here
From this dark, cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here. - Sarah McLachlan quote.
In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here
From this dark, cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here.
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. - Iris Murdoch quote.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao Tzu quote.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
I have never cared for an upholstered life, and, please God, I never shall. The protected existence, as I see it, is to refuse the risks, to be prudent and aquiescent, to sit tight, perhaps to climb cautiously, but never to plunge. I'd rather be squashed at the bottom of the heap than be planted at the top. - Walter Lippmann quote.
I have never cared for an upholstered life, and, please God, I never shall. The protected existence, as I see it, is to refuse the risks, to be prudent and aquiescent, to sit tight, perhaps to climb cautiously, but never to plunge. I'd rather be squashed at the bottom of the heap than be planted at the top.

adversity

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Some modern comforts and luxuries don't make you happier; they just make your life miserable when you don't have them.