Comfortings Quotes & Sayings

If I were a modern writing about a modern young woman I would have to do her wedding night in grisly detail. The custom of the country and the times would demand a description, preferable "comic," of foreplay, lubrication, penetration, and climax and in deference to the accepted opinions about Victorian love, I would have to abort the climax and end the wedding night in tears and desolate comfortings. But I don't know. I have a good deal of confidence in both Susan Burling and the man she married. I imagine they worked it out without the need of any scientific lubricity and with even less need to make their privacies public. — Wallace Stegner

Sometimes life is like a long road leading from one "if" to another. — Cynthia Lord

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. — Theodor Adorno

Oh, Mr. Take-My-Cock-Not-His." I spit out my coffee and watch a smirk spread across her face. "I must admit it was kind of hot. — River Savage

I was hiding from them even while I moved among them. — John Wyndham

I have all the conditions for happiness, save happiness. The conditions are detached from one another. — Fernando Pessoa

To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take. — Roderick Haig-Brown

But seriously, if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they'd probably say they didn't. Yet that's not necessarily what they truly think. It's just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don't until they're allowed to. Most people would throw away all their cynicism if they could. The majority just never get the chance. — Alain De Botton

You have to be careful not to get overexposed. — Mike Love

Veganism is about nonviolence:
nonviolence to other sentient beings;
nonviolence to yourself;
nonviolence to the earth. — Gary L. Francione

... so so lonely, like, I don't know, a day without birds or something. — Jandy Nelson

Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think. — Fred Brooks

Yes," she whispered.
He kissed her forehead. "yes what my leelan?"
"I will marry you — J.R. Ward

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation. — George Bernard Shaw

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. — Rowan Williams