Quotes About Relief

How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.

I felt the kind of peace you feel when you come in from a hot afternoon and pour cold water over your feet.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

The best way to relieve stress is to trust yourself.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics.

When something weighs on your conscience, give it up.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

That's how he saw climbing, a physical exercise in positive and negative space. The vast expanse of white drawing the small, person-shaped speck into sharp relief.

If I could wish for immortality on earth, it would only be for the power of relieving the distressed.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.

The euphoria of quitting a bad job was rivaled only by good sex.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

I cannot account for this numbness of feeling that weighs me down and makes me helpless," he wrote sadly to Edward. "I think without a relief from all work, without a long and perfect holiday, I will never rise.

I had a moment of what I can only call clearheadedness. The suffocating anxiety was gone, momentarily, and I felt a deep relief, a sense of sudden calm after eons of warfare inside my head. I had gotten so used to the noise that the quiet was unfamiliar. It was as if the evil beast that had been holding my head under water, trying to drown me, had suddenly let go.

money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.

The word for sorrow in the Hebrew signifies a shield that fenceth and covers over; and, saith one upon this place, it denotes the disease physicians call cardiaca passio, which so oppresseth the heart that is covered sicut scuto—as with a shield or lid over it, and keeps all relief from the heart.

Demerol made it all seem okay.

Largely because of the boom, the projected deficit had shrunk to $75 billion, leading Clinton to indulge the GOP's obsessive desire to cut rich people's taxes. As always the cuts were described as tax relief for the middle class, but 68 percent went to the top i percent of taxpayers

At my age, the only time I don't have to pee is when I'm peeing.

All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.

And then, one morning, you're startled to discover that you no longer feel this terrible burden. What a surprise to notice that the angst has disappeared. Why on that particular day? Why not later, or sooner? It's the totalitarian decision of our body.