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Quotes About Relief

He will be sure to give us rest soon.
~ Helen L. Taylor
was on the right side, was allowed to dislike this grown-up and consider him a fool. It's painful to recall my relief on reading this, founded as it was on a desperate misunderstanding about the size of the world.
~ Helen Macdonald
She doesn't want to see anyone. She's happy like that, I think. Always relieved at the end of a visit.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
It turns out that the average annoyed American only needs to pull three terrible faces before she feels better.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
To see a Woman you love in Distress; to be unable to relieve her, and at the same Time to reflect that you have brought her into this Situation, is, perhaps, a Curse of which no Imagination can represent the Horrors to those who have not felt it.
~ Henry Fielding
Material progress does not merely fail to relieve poverty, it actually produces it. This association of progress with poverty is the great enigma of our times. It is the riddle that the sphinx of fate puts to our civilization. And which NOT to answer is to be destroyed.
~ Henry George
All the world wants to help Nepal and vast sums of aid have been lavished on the country, yet much of it seems to have disappeared without trace, leaving only faded signs and notice-boards behind.
~ Henry Marsh
Sleep is my escape. It gives me a break from the ceaseless self awareness that I choke on.
~ Henry Rollins
But the liveliest attention was attracted by occurrences quite apart from, and unconnected with, the battle. It was as if the minds of these morally exhausted men found relief in everyday, commonplace occurrences.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He cried the relief he felt at finally seeing the pattern, the way all the stories fit together—the old stories, the war stories, their stories—to become the story that was still being told. He was not crazy; he had never been crazy. He had only seen and heard the world as it always was: no boundaries, only transitions through all distances and time.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
and she always came away with a sense of relief that she could leave. The place
~ Leslie Meier
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
~ Lev Grossman
Everyone was pretending to be bored to tears, or maybe they actually were, but Quentin wasn't. He was unexpectedly happy, though he instinctively kept it a secret. In fact he was so fully of joy and relief he could barely breathe. Like a receding glacier the ordeal of the Beast had left behind a changed world, jumbled and scraped and raw, but the earth was finally putting up new green shoots again.
~ Lev Grossman
His heart felt like it was burning with relief and regret, the emotions melting and running together and turning into bright, hot, white light. "The thing is," he said. "I'd hate to cut out right before bonus season.
~ Lev Grossman
She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else.
~ Lev Grossman
She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please, just be somewhere else and somebody else.
~ Lev Grossman
Utangaç insanlar?n ?zd?rab?, haklar?nda olu?an dü?ünceyi bilmemekten kaynaklan?r; bu dü?ünce -ne olursa olsun- aç?kça ifade edilir edilmez ?zd?rap sona erer.
~ Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Humor is how we find comfort in the totally illogical, for it is the bridge back to the logical.
~ Lewis Black
FEMA I always thought was a bone here in your ass.
~ Lewis Niles Black
Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.
~ Robert Harris
What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.
~ Steven Van Zandt
Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'
~ Jimmy Fallon
The great thing for me is how Hitchcock uses guilt so well. He implicates the spectator in the character's field, and you really feel it, and there's incredible relief when it comes out right - if it does come out right.
~ Whit Stillman
To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa