Quotes About Relief

awake from a dream in which their cave had collapsed and was slowly crushing her to death, and discovered that Clay had rolled over on top of her in the middle of the night.

It was almost a relief to be distracted by a NightWing assassin landing on top of the rock pile beside them.

At least Webs is dead,

There's nothing like a good downpour to cool people off.

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.

and the relief of being able to walk around without having to search for a parking place added to the pleasure of strolling

The travel, the sex, the writing, the romances, were—so Norman Sherry suggests—all attempts by Greene to relieve his depression. He was an authentic melancholic.

My head was buzzing with anxiety—it was all those warnings—but relief came in the form of butterflies of the sort I'd seen on the riverbank at El Cenizo.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

there's more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn't mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth.

Thou art relieved of thy duties!

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

Giving patients the information that they need—not necessarily the standard of care in 1964—goes a long way toward relieving the anxiety and fear that worsen pain. But what was impressive was the magnitude of the effect. The group with the extra discussion needed half the amount of pain medication that the control group needed.

My side felt a lot better when Nora called me at noon the next day. My nice policeman wants to see you, she said. How do you feel? Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober. I pushed Asta out of the way and got up.

Hurricane Floyd, packing a wind estimated at 14 miles per hour, lashes South Florida, wreaking more than $67.50 worth of havoc. Governor "Bob" Martinez, after touring the devastated area via golf cart, pledges that he will request federal disaster relief, then campaign against it.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

For years I feared the opening of every elevator, half-convinced that from the opened doors would come a bullet, for me, shot by a man in a tan trenchcoat. I have no idea why I feared this, expected it to happen. I even knew how I would react to this bullet coming from the elevator door, what word I would say. That word was: Finally.

The prisoners had also turned to look at Mars. Those doing push-ups and pull-ups stopped. They wiped off their hands and moved back against the wall. And waited. Their expressions were clear. Thank God it's not me. The news had spread fast. Mars might be getting out after nearly being put to death.

Just... norma… everyday… lives. With these last words her tone grew rote and her expression became bored. Yeah, what a relief, said Dan, but he looked every bit as bored as his sister. … We're Cahills. We save the world. It's what we do.

through the world's body, liberating the knots of accumulated pain.

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.