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“Society is no comfort to one not sociable.” William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline” - 1623

“The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.” Confucius, “Analects”

“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it.” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;” William Shakespeare, “Venus and Adonis” - 1593

“It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, It is a comforter.” William Shakespeare, “The Tempest” - 1623

“He receives comfort like cold porridge.” William Shakespeare, “The Tempest” - 1623

“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“It's a comfortable thing, music is.” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might...” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“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 with and, in the end, despair.” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“If I didn't care about doing right, and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally.” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.” Samuel Butler, “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” - 1912

“I have observed this in my experience of slavery,—that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.” Frederick Douglass, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” - 1845

“Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.” Agatha Christie, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” - 1920

“I think I must have a good deal of my uncle Theodore Roosevelt in me because I enjoy a good fight and I could not, at any age, really be contented to take my place in a warm corner by the fireside and simply look on.” Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt” - 1961

“Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.” Nicholas Sparks, “The Lucky One” - 2008

“His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“This was very pleasant; there is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“Adventures are all very well in their place . . . but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.” Neil Gaiman, “Stardust” - 1999

“I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Invisible Monsters” - 1999

“It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart, and he had no one to comfort him.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.” George MacDonald, “At the Back of the North Wind” - 1871

“Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness.” H. G. Wells, “The Time Machine” - 1895

“the danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“They weren’t making much sense; she decided they were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing.” Neil Gaiman, “Coraline” - 2002

“Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“That'll be a comfort, one way—never to be an old woman—but then—always to have lessons to learn!” Lewis Carroll, “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” - 1865

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