Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.
I can't believe I'm comforting a billionaire.
It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting,. . . Malcolm in the Middle.
Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.
The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?
Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance.
I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.
The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.
You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of the room, and then you're gone. With a novel you move into town and stay for a long time. That's both comforting and terrifying.
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.
They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.
In a painting I want to say something comforting.
This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.
We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.
I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.