Quotes by Comforting Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is – profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned. Susan Howe writing comforting children 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. Suzanne Collins lonely comforting firsts A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager. Sylvia Ashton-Warner contagious spring comforting Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. T. H. White degradation comforting children The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther. Sylvia Plath bell-jar comforting fall I walked around Soho's street for over an hour, running into familiar faces but never once stopping to chat. It was then that I felt something discomforting and comforting all at once. I didn't want to be here, in this city, anymore. Tablo cities running comforting There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue. Suzanne Collins dying comforting hands I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting Teri Garr enormous affection comforting If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long. Thomas Pynchon religious comforting long And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go. Tom Lehrer bereavement achievement comforting There’s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There’s also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didn’t turn out half bad either. Vicki Pettersson childhood comforting thinking One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music. Vincent Van Gogh color speak comforting And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting. Vincent Van Gogh want comforting art It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It's loss would create a very large black hole. Wayne Coyne black loss comforting I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable. Wess Stafford my-time half comforting I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting. Wolfgang Puck growing-up real comforting It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people Woody Guthrie comforting jobs people There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times. William Shakespeare delight waste comforting Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things. Woody Allen comforting science people A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance. Yasunari Kawabata secret comforting sweet «23456789101112»