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Quotes About Relief

I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
~ Anatole France
The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.
~ Dawn Johnsen
Being "in love" shouldn't cause stress; it should relieve it.
~ Jeanne Phillips
Tears disturb and confuse men, but women know the relief they can bring. I didn't cry because I couldn't deal with my life, but because I could.
~ Megan Hart
It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Stephen King is one of my all-time heroes, so, of course, the pressure never lets up. Every second, you hope he'll like it. I remember getting a call from him after he read my script for 'Hearts in Atlantis.' He liked it. Talk about relief.
~ William Goldman
And the word ??????????is a deep word, signifying to suffer with us until we are relieved. And this affection, thus stirred up, is it which moves him so cordially to help us.
~ Thomas Goodwin
When he died, I felt like a dark, devouring force had been stilled at last. I wore his death like wings.
~ Thomas H Cook
Oh! virtue knows no hopeless grief, 'Tis sin that must despair; The true believer finds relief In solitary pray'r.
~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
As the term of my relief from this place [Washington, D.C.] approaches, it's drudgery becomes more nauseating and intolerable, and my impatience to be with you at Monticello increases daily.
~ Thomas Jefferson
What a relief, what an unburdening to have closed the book on humankind.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Whatever's there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own mortality. Get with someone you can trust with tears, with anger, and wonderment and utter silence. Get that part done – the sooner the better. The only way around these things is through them.
~ Thomas Lynch
That food was so bad I can't wait for it to become a turd and leave me.
~ Thomas McGuane
Dreaming is no other than groaning, while sleep our surgeon hath us in cure
~ Thomas Nashe
The strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another, who in his turn requires the same
~ Thomas Paine
There are, in every country, some magnificent charities established by individuals. It is, however, but little that any individual can do, when the whole extent of the misery to be relieved is considered. He may satisfy his conscience, but not his heart. He may give all that he has, and that all will relieve but little. It is only by organizing civilization upon such principles as to act like a system of pulleys, that the whole weight of misery can be removed. -Agrarian Justice
~ Thomas Paine
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
~ Thornton Wilder
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alleviation?
~ Thornton Wilder
la compasión nos permite abrirnos a la realidad del sufrimiento y buscar su alivio.
~ Thupten Jinpa
In other words, they are doing the necessary therapy to understand their trauma-related issues, but they are ignoring the needs of their bodies and not balancing their daily stressors with support and stress relief.
~ Tian Dayton
One does not need to create some powerful therapeutic intervention in the life of a CoA in order to make a big difference. An open door, a couch to curl up on, an after-school snack, or a place to play can make the essential difference for CoAs: they just need a place to go that isn't in a state of chaos, somewhere where they feel they can relax.
~ Tian Dayton
Near the end they give you morphine. I'm looking forward to that." Serge turned another page. "You might want to bottle some of that excess ambition for the afterlife.
~ Tim Dorsey
Relieve stress through hysterical screaming.
~ Tim Dorsey
There's some moments in your life where you're just like, 'I need something just funny.' That's the noble thing you can do. Make someone forget about their life for 22 minutes.
~ Jonathan Krisel