Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

I like routine.

I'm someone who likes routine.

When I'm feeling awful, music is the only thing that releases the pressure. It's been the best psychiatrist I've ever had.

Nothing will make a place feel unlike home like chaos.

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.

Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.

Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.

The local shepherd, I vividly remember his old Barbour jacket, with a hipflask in the pocket. It just feels very familiar - like part of my childhood. The smell of the wax. Whenever I put one on now, it just feels comforting.

In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.

Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.

Comics seemed to have a handle on things. They could sort of disarm and get control over reality. I found it very comforting to laugh.

I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

There is comfort in routine.

I use the name and the thought very, very easily as a sort of comfort - as a kind of comfort, in some way. And in that way, it's just like having a friend, I suppose.