41 Quotes About Comforting a Friend

From the loss of a loved one to a relationship that has just broken up, finding a way to bring comfort to a friend is a powerful skill to have. You must understand their needs, empathize with their feelings, and find a way to offer healing words. These quotes about comforting a friend give the right inspiration during this time of need.

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”

“Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.”

“Braising eggs in a flavoursome, aromatic sauce is all the rage. It is warming and comforting, ideal for the morning when you are not normally up for a great culinary challenge.”

“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.”

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

“Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it’s comforting when you’re near someone and you recognize their smell.”

“Having your house fill up with the people you love is comforting.”

“How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it ‘comforting’?”

“I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It’s very comforting.”

“I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.”

“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.”

“If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.”

“I’m interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I’m not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.”

“In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.”

“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.”

“Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.”

“It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don’t put psychotics in high places and we’ve got the problem solved.”

“It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.”

“It’s just very homey in Ireland. It’s very comforting and comfortable. There’s lots of fireplaces with fires. It’s just really cozy.”

“It’s quite comforting to me as an individualist that we’re not very close to being clones of one other.”

“It’s so comforting to have a small piece of cake. Just one slice.”

“Marriage is definitely a very comforting feeling.”

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”

“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.”

“Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.”

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”

“Sometimes there’s something very comforting about a film unfolding more or less as you expect it to.”

“That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you’re not alone and that’s what’s so comforting about books.”

“That routine thing is not comforting to me. It’s the opposite to that.”

“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.”

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”

“The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.”

“There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.”

“To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.”

“We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.”

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

“We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.”

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.”

“When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench.”

Getting out of your comfort zone is sometimes what is need to be there for a friend at the right time and in the right way.