Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.
He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except. . . just for one second, he would have had to know, wouldn't he? There must have been a blur, a sense of the world exploding, a flashpoint of receiving more damage than a human body could endure.
Be comforted with this divine thought that your spiritual and physical pains are the test of the Divine Will.
God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand.
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.
Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. [. . . ] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted. I try to hold on to the peaceful feeling of the dream, but it quickly slips away, leaving me sadder than ever.
We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.
Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
. . . Not only are we comforted in our trials, but our trials can equip us to comfort others.
Children be comforted, I am well.
I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth.
She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.
Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.
I don't think we are comforted by the fact that we were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States and obviously that's not correct
