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Comfort Quotes

On finding ease, and on choosing to leave it behind.

Comfort shows up here as both refuge and obstacle — dance as a childhood source of comfort, a performer's slower path to comfort with her own voice, and the deliberate choice to push past a comfort zone. See Comfort Zone quotes for more.

Sometimes comfort zones are the best. Sometimes discomfort is just what the doctor ordered.

Quotes by Aesop Rock

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Quotes by Aesop

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

Quotes by Adoniram Judson

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Quotes by Adolf Loos

Comfort Food Quotes

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

Quotes by Adolf Loos

We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which...

Quotes by Abraham Verghese

You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building...

Quotes by Aasif Mandvi

It's good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.

Quotes by Zoe Sugg

I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.

Quotes by Yara Shahidi

Comfort Zone Quotes

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me.

Quotes by Willie Aames

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Quotes by William Samuel Johnson

Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?

Quotes by William Nicholson

While Pop lived his life in comfort, he was always generous to the less fortunate.

Quotes by William E. Simon

Comfortable Quotes

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

Quotes by William Allen White

The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question.

Quotes by William Banting

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Quotes by Will Self

When you are a kid, you find so much comfort in dancing. I was comforted.

Quotes by Wendy Whelan

I was so comfortable with my ballet power, my dancer power, that to have a voice, the comfort with having a voice, is slower to come to me.

Quotes by Wendy Whelan

Comforted Quotes

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new...

Quotes by Washington Irving

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection of "comfort" quotes cover?
It ranges from finding a performer's voice harder than physical confidence, to comfort found in dancing as a kid, pushing outside a comfort zone, and an old-fashioned line about the relief of change.
Does a quote contrast physical confidence with finding one's voice?
Yes: "I was so comfortable with my ballet power, my dancer power, that to have a voice, the comfort with having a voice, is slower to come to me."
Is dancing linked to childhood comfort?
Yes: "When you are a kid, you find so much comfort in dancing. I was comforted."
Does a quote encourage leaving your comfort zone?
Yes: "It's good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself." See the Comfort Zone collection for more.
Is there an old-fashioned quote about the relief of change?
Yes: "There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse!" The same quote adds that "it is often a comfort to shift one's position."

An older, wryer note closes the theme: even a downward turn in circumstance can bring a strange relief, a comfort found in motion rather than stillness — explore Comfort Food and Comfortable quotes.