Cold Comfort Quotes

“I feel very, very alone."

"We're all alone, Reva," I told her. It was true: I was, she was. This was the maximum comfort I could offer.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.”
― Hermann Hesse, The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse

“People may have to die, but morbidity will live forever.”
― Mara Wilson, Where Am I Now?

“Talking to Reva about misery was insufferable. 'Look on the bright side,' was what she wanted everyone to do.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Omission is not technically a lie. It's a cold comfort.”
― Maddy Kobar, From Out of Feldspar