A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there’s some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Baby girls, as young as 12 months old, respond more empathically to the distress of other people, showing greater concern through more sad looks, sympathetic vocalisations and comforting. This echoes what you find in adulthood: more women report frequently sharing the emotional distress of their friends.
I love Evanescence. I think it’s quite comforting to really make nostalgic early 2000s inspired music for me, personally. I think it just reminds me of being a kid again. And that was a nice time.
Religion works. I know there’s comfort there, a crash pad. It’s something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it’s comforting.
I think I grew up with the idea that there was something comforting about preparing food.
I think Jughead is a pretty trustworthy character – not only a narrator. I think he might be selfish, but he’s obviously selfish, and that is comforting to me. I also think he has a really strong moral fiber and a propensity for good, and he tries to cultivate that in other people.
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that’s lacking in our regular lives.
I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
I haven’t found music comforting since the ’80s, but it doesn’t mean it’s not good – it just doesn’t work for me. It’s shocking to me because music was my religion from the age of 11, and it’s like I don’t believe in my god any more.
If I go to heaven, I’d like Phillip and Fern or Richard and Judy – if they die first – to be waiting for me with a big plate of pork pies with piccalilli. A comforting thought.
The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity.
My all-time favorite skin cream is from Poland. Its called Eva Natura with Polish herbs, including rosemary. It smells wonderful and is soothing and comforting.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
Most of my food memories are of my Nan cooking Sunday dinners – roasts of meat with lots of vegetables. I suppose I cook what’s comforting and dishes that make me feel good.
I can look at the future with anticipation. And it’s comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we’ll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.
I’m interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I’m not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliability of simple-to-understand theories like F=MA. Unfortunately, it isn’t. Economics is a social science, and the so-called theories are really social and moral constructs.
I think anytime in someone’s faith journey, my faith journey also, you go through doubting… I think you kind of have to go through that, honestly, just to ask the tough questions… I mean, life is crazy, and to know that, honestly, a loving God is walking through it with me is very comforting for me.
Schitt’s Creek’ has become my go-to, comforting favorite; it’s a they-feel-like-my-friends kind of TV program.
In an age of never-ending health fads, it’s comforting to learn that one of the healthiest activities you can do has existed for millennia. It’s called reading. Yes, books are not just entertaining or educational: they can also improve your mental health.
I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you’re going to be taken through.
In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.
At some point, I stumbled across an article about OCD. As I read, I was blown away by how identical the writer’s description was to what I was experiencing. It was overwhelmingly comforting to finally realize that I wasn’t alone and that nothing was wrong with me. It was a treatable disorder.
When your best friend dies, and you’re crying on the balcony, and TMZ is taking pictures of somebody comforting you saying, ‘Ooooo, scandalous’ – that’s the worst part of fame.
That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.
I find booksellers comforting – they’re my people.
At first, I had such stage fright, and it was always comforting to look over and see my big brother.
A lot of the people that I read have never had a medium experience before – it’s comforting.
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
I sing to myself more than anything. I’m always chastising myself, telling myself to be better, or comforting myself.
I don’t think I’m gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don’t know – who the hell knows what’s gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn’t that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don’t know. And I like that it’s somebody else’s decision, not mine.
To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.
If you think the country is at risk of imploding due to cancel culture, lack of border control, horrific foreign policy decisions going back decades, and bowing down to China – and many of us do – then absolutely a Trump speech is a breath of comforting and soothing fresh air.
I used to like to break into other people’s houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone’s empty house.
The big budget films have money to do things that are not necessarily essential but sure are comforting. The catering is usually much better. And you have way more of anything you could possibly need. You definitely get a trailer. My shirt and suit for ‘Million Dollar Baby’ were tailor made.
There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
It’s a comforting thought to know that I’ve got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There’s nothing too big or too crazy that’s going to tear us apart.
I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates ‘me’ from my work in a way that I find comforting.
I’m pretty horrible at relationships and haven’t been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on – returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy – is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means… airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.
It’s very comforting to feel myself getting stronger.
My dad and I would go to Blockbuster and look for Asian films and we could never find any. If we saw a Jackie Chan movie we would watch that because it was so comforting to see a face similar to ours.
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
What was so comforting was that the more I started being honest on my blog, the more people responded.
Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.
When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.
I like to come back to the science fiction of Stanislaw Lem. He is comforting but also funny, and although I know his books, there’s always something new to discover.
In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life.
I feel like the one insight that’s extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.
I need that hug from my mom. She’s the Latin mother that hugs you and says all these sweet things to you in Spanish. It’s just comforting. She also gives me that strength.
I find that comforting and an equally purposeful way to think, that there’s lots of ways to flex both your strengths and your weaknesses.
That routine thing is not comforting to me. It’s the opposite to that.
