There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

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

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

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and read more

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

. . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect read more

. . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.

To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not read more

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.