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“A word of consolation may sweetly touch the ear.Now and then a quiet songwill clear the mind of fear.A simple act of kindnesscan ease a load of care.Stories told in memorydiminish all despair.A whi...”
“When I wear her clothes, I just feel safer, like she's whispering in my ear.”
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When so...”
“Comfort, though can be a real reason for mediocrity and conformity, improves speed and enhances mind power greatly!”
“Take solace in that, regardless of the fact that the love you had in your mind was lost, it was fairer than any, and you can take that with you forever.”
“I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.”
“We kept on cooking and walking the dog, taking the kids to the park, cleaning the kitchen, and letting Sara and Adam hate what was going on when they needed to. Sometimes we let them resist finding...”
“Now in the thriving season of lovewhen the bud relents into flower,your love turned absence has turned once more,and if my comforts fall soft as rainon her flutters, it is becauselove grows by what...”
“Weve run out of comforting things to say.”
“He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even then? Because we at least had that: arms, around.”
“By showing that you don't have to lose yourself, maybe someone else will feel some sort of comfort.”
“Contrary to what a lot of people believe (or hope), comfort doesnt take the pain away. Comfort slides in beside the pain, pulling up a chair so that we have something more than sorrow in our hearts...”
“I slept and I woke. She gave me a ring made from a leaf, a cluster of golden berries, a flower that opened and closed at the stroking of a finger....And once, when I startled awake with my face wet...”
“Reading Aloud to My Father I chose the book haphazardfrom the shelf, but with Nabokov's firstsentence I knew it wasn't the thingto read to a dying man:The cradle rocks above an abyss, it began,and ...”
“Dear Eloisa (said I) theres no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make light of it in order to comfort her) I beg you would not mind it You see it does not...”
“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
“I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.”
“In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the lost boy he'd been back then. But she had the grown male.She had him right in...”
“Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.”
